Admin password recovery

I recently reinstalled my operating system, Mountain Lion. I had to change my admin password then promptly misplaced it. How do I recover the password please?

Admin Password reset:
1. option + power on recovery
2. choose recovery HD
3. choose English as a Main language
3. when the 4 options come up go to the top left hand menu to: Menu>Utilities>Terminal
5. window will come up 'resetpassword', hit enter
6. Select the user account by clicking on the icon
7. enter the user pw into the account, 2x, and enter a password hint
8. save (do nothing with Reset Home Folder and ACLs)
9. will receive a message 'Login Password Reset…user's default keychain password was not changed…) click ok
10. close all windows by clicking red circle
11. go to Apple icon, choose SHUTDOWN
12. at startup enter password
13. when you receive the message about updating click 'create new keychain'

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In Cisco NCS shell I have incorrectly entered the following command in order to chang ethe admin password and saved it
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The only way to recover the admin password for NCS would be to use the recovery image (iso). The recovery image is not available for download from CCO. Please open a TAC case & they can special publish the image for you.
For the CLI admin password, the recovery method is the same as the physical appliance. Attach the recovery ISO, and reboot the machine. You may have to force the virtual machine to boot from the cd drive. Once it does, you will get the menu that contains the password recovery option.
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DS6, Admin password recovery

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Make sure you are following the steps in the following link:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/1-2/installation_guide/ise_ig/ise_postins.html#38674
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CAS admin password recovery

I am looking for help doing a password reset for the web admin password for a CAS server, I have the root password and can login into the CLI fine, but I can not access the web interface.

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BIOS admin password recovery (aka "system disable")

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I have captured from the link which says:
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Password Recovery on UC540

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How to unlock windows admin password

Dear Support,
Please tell me how to unlock the password of administrator in windows 8.1
Ashok Marodia
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Method 1: Recover Windows 8.1 Administrator Password with Third-party Software
1. Download and install Windows Password Recovery Tool Ultimate on a workable computer and launch it.
2. Insert a blank CD/DVD or USB Flash Drive to the workable computer; choose a way to burn a password reset disk.
3. Insert the created reset disk into the locked computer and restart the locked computer, then you need to set BIOS to boot the computer from the disk. If your computer with Windows 8.1 preinstalled uses UEFI, you should disable UEFI Secure Boot firstly.
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I ran the Windows 7 updates yesterday, but only the necessary ones. I did not install any of the optional ones. After the updates completed, I turned the computer on and it was stuck in a loop cycle - starting windows, then the admin password log in box came up. The box was fiiled in (with "dots" but too many to represent my password) and the screen just quickly flashed back & forth between the log in screen and "password incorrect". I tried to switch user, and it flashed back to the admin log in.
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I tried to reboot by holding in the power button and then turning it back on. After selecting country & language again, the same password screen come up.
It is stuck! Any help would be greatly appreciated! I computer I have is the HP TouchSmart 310 PC 1155-Y.
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That is curious with a Recovery. First, try to reset the password using NTPassword. Make the CD, boot to it following the directions. If that does not solve the signon problem, consider installing the OS from a regular Windows 7 disk of the same version, using the key from the COA sticker.
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My admin password stopped working. Can't restart in recovery and tried terminal but need more specific guidance there. Am operating macbook from external drive

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Hey JustSomeGuy,
Thanks for the response. It is the external drive that has the data I need to keep. Reboot did not do it...
What I did get done just now is going into Safe Mode and delete the problematic files there and Empty Trash. That worked - so one step closer hopefully. I did not do the .DS Store files (will do that after done writing this).
How do I do a copy with cp rather than the finder?
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Thanks for your reply.
I have visited both the sites you listed but it seems to me that the solutions mentioned are to fix the User or log in p/w's.They do not seem to refer to the admin one again.
I understand about it being just like other user accts but the fixes do not really refer to it only the above two.
I have no problem booting up my Mac, I do not use a log in p/w so my problem is with the Admin p/w that was set up back in 2008. This is what I need to reset etc.
I am quite confused over these pw's as to just what is what and I need to make sure I understand all before I get into deeper trouble following these links.
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