Clear Admin Password

Is it possible to clear the admin password in contribute 3.11
if you do not have the original password?

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Hi, I'm running my macbook from an external hard drive (Os yosemite) due to bad reinstall of mavericks. It was fine for a while then admin Password stopped working and i tried all ways to retrieve it. I want to install os back onto internal drive.

Due to a bad install of Mavericks, my macbook was just on a loop. I correctly formatted a new external drive and installed Yosemite there and was able to retrieve my files onto the external drive. So for a while I was able to run my mac from the os on the external drive and it was fine. I built up enough courage to clear the internal hard drive. or so i thought. It will no longer recognize my admin password and I can't gain access through my Apple store and iCloud password so I have effectively been locked out. i have tried all suggested ways to deal with that. I can't seem to install the os from my external drive on to the macbook internal drive. My dvd/cd player hasn't worked for a long time so I can't install a snow leopard disc and upgrade from there. I really need help here. thanks

Tried this just now, but it didn't work. I copied it to my internal drive, but if I then selected that file and told it to open in iTunes, it played the one on my external drive.
However, it was possible to play the copied movie in QuickTime Player. I wonder, though, would that approach work with a rented movie? The movie I was using was one I bought from iTunes.

HOW DO I LOAD MAC OS LION ONTO AN OLDER iMAC (2010) WITHOUT THE ADMIN PASSWORD.

I purchased MAC OS LION (version 1.0.4) (multi user) from APPLE about 4 months ago. The OS LION came on a thumb drive that is used to load it on multiple computers instead of having to down loading it off the APPLE website. I have only loaded one version of LION onto one computer so far.
I want to load the LION on a used iMAC(about 2-years old) I recently purchased but can't because I don't have the previous owners ADMIN password.
I don't have the original disc that came with the iMAC either. The OS currently on the iMAC is Snow Leopard 10.6.8
I do not care about any data that the previous owner had on the hard drive which isn't much so I would be glad to install MAC OS LION from scratch and erase/reformat the hard drive. Doing this I presume I can then create my own Admin password .
I believe there is a procedure where you hold down certain keys at startup which will allow you to clear the HD and install the new OS but I am unaware of the key sequence. Nor am I sure if this will work with the THUMBRIVEn or if you need an actual disc.
If anyone can give me direction on how I can load the OS LION from the thumb drive when I start the computer up so I can reformat/erase the HD I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks for any help you can give me

If the password you are talking about is the EFI boot password the only way to bypass and or remove it is to take the system to Apple.
If it is a User Log On password then just boot the computer from that thumb drive open Disk Utility and Re-Partition the internal drive as ONE partition. then exit out of DU and select Reinstall Mac OS X.
Once that is done it will boot to a fresh clean install of Lion ready to be setup with new user account and password.

How do I change the admin password in SJSWS 7.0?

I've googled this, searched the forums, read the manual, but I haven't found anything that explained how to change the admin password for SJSWS 7.0. So, right now I'm stuck with "adminadmin" as the password, which I think is the default since I don't remember specifying that during install. Clearly I can't use this in production with the default admin password... sorry if this is a rtfm question, but I really didn't see anything in the manual about changing the admin password. Thanks!

You could use the following CLI command:-
wadm> set-admin-prop --set-password
More information about the command:-
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-3283/set-admin-prop-1?a=view
You could also use Administration console-
- Login to the Administration Console and click on the Nodes tab
- In the Nodes page, click on the Administration Server link within the Nodes table
- Go to "Administration Server Preferences" section in the General page and change the password

VM Template bypass Local Admin Password, can it be done?

I was curious to know if there was a way to create a VM from Template in VMM without having to supply a password in the OS Configuration properties? I know that if we leave that field blank normally, when the VM creation occurs, it will get to about 98%
and hang. When you "Connect via Console" option, it is sitting at the screen asking you to supply a password, then the installation finishes, and the VM is ready to go. We are trying to set up VM Templates in SCVMM 2012 R2 that are going to be more
or less a user self-service situation. We have several powershell scripts that automate nearly 100% of our admin tasks for us, and in the VM Template, there is a simple batch file that copies down a directory, and launches a script and away it goes. After
10-15 minutes, the Hyper-V VM is joined to our domain, page file virtual memory is set based on specs of VM, WSUS is connected and all updates applied since template creation, etc etc etc...
Our goal is to have the server log on after creation from a template, run the bat file on the D:\ drive, and go completely untouched from start to finish. The Local Administrator account is renamed and given a new password as part of the setup postload scripts.
But the only way to get the VM to do this is by putting in an initial password in the properties of the VM. How can we create a VM from template without supplying any password? So that once SCVMM creates the powered off VM, the person who created the VM powers
it on, and then after their 15 minute break, have a server joined to the domain and ready for them to log into.

Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it.
I wasn't as clear as I should have been, reading over the initial post I see that now. We have these set up as Service Templates. There is a hardcoded Admin password already supplied in the Machine Tier properties so it does allow from start to creation
a VM. But then none of the scripts we have set under the "Run Once" property of the configuration will run until an initial logon is provided, then the scripts kick off, the VM reboots twice and 15 minutes later....voila! Server ready to go. It was that initial
logon we were wondering about bypassing.
The basic process goes as such:
1) Service Template launched with "Deploy" option in App Controller or SCVMM
2) VM Guest syspreps from Machine Tier VM Template and configuration, a local admin password is provided, and VM powers on when complete.
3) VM Guest stays powered on until local admin hits cntrl+alt+del, provides local admin password
4) Run Once configuration kicks in, reads the "Auto_script.bat" file from root of D:
5) Scripts join VM Guest to domain, uses domain credentials, runs a whole series of tasks, removes the domain credentials, reboots server.
6) Server is now ready for customer to log on to and use, fully updated, on the domain, based on service template used also with the appropriate roles and features configured (File Server, IIS, etc).
It's that step 3 we are hoping to get around somehow with scripts or whatever so that when the VM guest is powered on after creation, something other than the end user or us cntrl+alt+del the OS, logs on with admin password and fully automated deployment
occurs from A-Z

What would be the impact of changing Enterprise and Domain admin password

Hello,
I'm planning to change the Enterprise/Domain Admin's password for some security reasons. I do not know what all will fail, what are all the process is going to be impacted. Actually I don't want to see the bigger impact after changing
the password.
I've gone thru' few articles but it's in Powershell where I have the limited knowledge & can't customize the script.
Is there a tool or a way to scan the LAN/Servers and get a clear output where these users accounts (Domain & Enterprise Admin) being used, especially windows services wise, and all other dependencies?
Can anybody help?
Regards,
MSK

Hello
As far as I have experienced by changing the enterprise admin password there will be no impact on the environment, not event on
Services.msc console. But resetting an account is a different story. If you change the user account, services which relies on the user will be updated automatically but by resetting the password you have to manually enter the password on each
service.
Also I am thinking about if you use remote desktop with saved credentials to connect to DC's as enterprise admin, you may experience account lockout problems. So wise move is to create another account as member of enterprise admins group and keep it safe
with a strong password and save it for a rainy day. In that case if the original enterprise admin locked out due to incorrect logons you have a gold key to overcome the situation.
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HP Laserjet 8150dn Web Admin Password

I cannot for the life of me figure out what the admin password is for this printer. I did a cold reset which cleared the SNMP community name but it still asks me for a password (see picture). After 30 minutes of guessing every possible password I figured I'd try here before asking the client if they'd like to pay $39 for HP tech support to fix this. Thanks so much in advance for you help!

any solution ???

IOMEGA home media network hard drive security issue - admin password bypass

Some time ago I analysed the http traffic between the above and firefox so that I could automate the restart process because I wanted to restart the drive about once a week overnight. This I achieved by writing a simple python program and it seemed to work ok but I stopped doing it after a short while. Many months later I have returned to this and found that the conversation has changed. The redirection that used to occur has gone and I can now restart my drive without the need for a valid administrator password and I have done this both from a computer on my lan and also via an external no-ip free dns domain name. Note that any attempt to access the drive via a browser still requires a valid password. My original drive was at firmware level 2.063 and this one (a replacement under warranty) is at 2.064.
Has anyone come across this problem and has anyone any idea how to fix it?
Happy to post my python code if required.

Thank you for the reply. I followed your advice. I guess the upgrade worked ok because the device now says its at the right level, it removed the admin password (which I then re-instated) and a robots.txt file has appeared in the FTP folder. However, a couple of things didn't work as advertised:
1. When I tried to turn on remote access it just hung and I had to reboot the device. It subsequently resolved itself after a couple of reboots and when I wasn't looking.
2. When I tried to access the folders through a browser I was presented with a greyed-out 'public' user, for which I did not have a password, and this only resolved itself when I added a new user, which led to another problem ...
3. I cleared the passwords on a couple of users because I wanted to change them. No way could I get a prompt for a new password - followed the instructions in the manual - so I ended up deleting them and recreating them from scratch.
Now then, has this fixed my original problem? Not really. The situation is that when remote access is enabled then my program in its current form doesn't work (but I would need to see if I could make it work). If remote access is disabled and I get my router to port-forward, say 8000, as 80 to the iomega then my program still works fine and I can do a restart or shutdown without the admin password.
Obviously now that I have this program worked out I can go on to do other admin tasks remotely.
I'd appreciate any further ideas you might have.

How to create a script to unmount a disk not permanently without typing the admin password?

Hello everybody!
My problem is the following: I have a macbook Pro with a Bootcamp partition, which is also virtualized by Virtualbox. I managed to make it work following different online guides that share all the main little side issue: if I don't want to dismount forever your Bootcamp disk from the running OS X, I have to use some "sudo" commands that requires me to type my admin password. In order to do so, I have to open the Terminal, type the string, type the password and then, only then, I can use the virtualized version. Well, since these ones are computer machines, born to work on repetitive and tedious processes, I'd like to automate that.
I have a little script, which doesn't work, that I'm showing you (Let's say I wrote it to make it clear to you what I would like the machine to do):
do shell script "sudo chmod 777 /dev/disk0s4"
tell application "Finder"
    if exists "BOOTCAMP" then
--Eject BOOTCAMP Volume if Mounted
          do shell script "sudo umount -f /Volumes/BOOTCAMP"
    end if
end tell
--Launch Virtual Machine
do shell script "vboxmanage startvm BtCmp-Win7"
What I'm now asking you is the following:
(a) is there a way to make it work without using my admin passaword? (... I really think the answer is no... )
(b) if the answer to (a) is no: is there a way to make a little window pop up to ask me to write the admin password and make everything work?
(c) I would like the disk to be remounted automatically once I Quit the VirtualBox application, how could I do that?
Well, I hope some kind hearted one can help me

Hello everybody!
My problem is the following: I have a macbook Pro with a Bootcamp partition, which is also virtualized by Virtualbox. I managed to make it work following different online guides that share all the main little side issue: if I don't want to dismount forever your Bootcamp disk from the running OS X, I have to use some "sudo" commands that requires me to type my admin password. In order to do so, I have to open the Terminal, type the string, type the password and then, only then, I can use the virtualized version. Well, since these ones are computer machines, born to work on repetitive and tedious processes, I'd like to automate that.
I have a little script, which doesn't work, that I'm showing you (Let's say I wrote it to make it clear to you what I would like the machine to do):
do shell script "sudo chmod 777 /dev/disk0s4"
tell application "Finder"
    if exists "BOOTCAMP" then
--Eject BOOTCAMP Volume if Mounted
          do shell script "sudo umount -f /Volumes/BOOTCAMP"
    end if
end tell
--Launch Virtual Machine
do shell script "vboxmanage startvm BtCmp-Win7"
What I'm now asking you is the following:
(a) is there a way to make it work without using my admin passaword? (... I really think the answer is no... )
(b) if the answer to (a) is no: is there a way to make a little window pop up to ask me to write the admin password and make everything work?
(c) I would like the disk to be remounted automatically once I Quit the VirtualBox application, how could I do that?
Well, I hope some kind hearted one can help me

Dell M1330 BIOS Admin Password

Check out the sticky post in this group from Dell; they can't help with that here anymore, you have to contact support.

Need help clearing the BIOS Admin Password. Not Windows password, not BIOS "system" password. This is the BIOS Admin Password. I have already tried removing the CMOS battery to clear and that did not work. I understand there is a way to "break" the password for these systems.
Can you help with a password for this system?
System Number: 6rq08j1-595b
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Reset Admin Password if you forgot???

Please advise if I need to run recovery on my compaq presario if admin. password was forgotten? Where I can run recovery from, I need to purchase cd?
You assistance is appreciated.
Compaq Presario Notebook User

@Compaq_help,
I am afraid that users on this forum won't be able to clear the password or tell you what your Windows password is. This was something that was set at the time the notebook was setup and is not a part of the base image of Windows or the notebook itself.
The standard response is to perform a full system recovery which would result in erasing the HDD and starting over. The HP recovery does have some options built-in to backup data, but it's not guaranteed and copies only what it finds.
There are other options listed in this thread and this thread. These methods are not endorsed or supported by HP. I have not used these methods myself and cannot speak for their validity or how successful they are.
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Forced to reset my admin password-

I could have sworn my system forgot the password. As I enter that password on a regular basis. One thing I noticed, the time it takes for the password to be processed takes longer everytime the wrong password is entered.
Is it possible for a system to "forget" a password? Maybe it got bugged out, I was installing a NeoOffice patched awhile before which required root access. I Logout out of the admin account after the patching was done. When I tried to get back in, it wouldnt' let me. I use this password on a very regular basis, so I find it very hard to believe I got it wrong. But I find it hard to believe the computer got it wrong unless something else changed it… But after a password is reseted, the issue of which entity was at fualt, user or system, becomes moot.
It's still a bit disconcerting none-the-less. Anybody else have this experience.

Hello,
my Mac is 10.7.5 and I've been in the Terminal resetpassword and changed my admin password however I'm trying to sync my apple devices and install different software and my new admin password is not taking. How do I clear all passwords out of my keychain and everywhere as I've been trying to reset as well for a week now.

Unable to install "Mavericks" as it asks for my 'Admin Password" and it does not work. Have not used it since I got my iMac in 2008. First upgrade to do so. Any solutions please?

I have a 2008 iMac which had Leopard initially and I have upgraded to each new OS without a hitch. I downloaded "Mavericks" and began the install, it asked me for my "Admin Password" which I have never ever used since I set the Mac up, I have it safely tucked away so entered it, it rejected it each time. Am sort of lost now, as if my "Admin P/W" does not work here can I go from here?
I have seen many others with this problem but so far most of the solutions seem to be for the "log in" or "User" password not the Admin one.
I am running Mountain Lion successfully.
I have my original disks as supplied and also a Snow Leopard install disk.
I have seen some info about fixing this via Lion Recovery partition which I must have due to using Mt Lion.
How can I repair this situation.
Thank you to all those who respond.

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.
This Admin p/w that was set up has never been used and is the only p/w I have except for my Apple ID. All previous upgrades only required my user name log in which has no p/w set up.
I hope you can follow me here butI have read so much on this it is becoming very confusing about whcih p/w's are what.

Can anyone help. For security reasons I reset my admin password on my Macbook Pro a few days ago and didn't write it down. Now I've forgotten it. I didnt receive an installation disc when I purchased my Macbook Pro online - it didn't come with one-help

Please see question above, but also note, I have the Applecare Protection Plan but am unable to get through to anyone on a weekend and I desperately need to use my laptop this weekend. I can't log in at all now as I've forgotten my admin password. A few weeks ago I also changed the password on my husband's new MacBook Pro and again forgot the password. I spoke to someone at Apple and they helped me to reset it within minutes, by restarting the computer holding Command+something else (I can't remember what it was). A black screen with writing came up and I had to type in something like "password" (not sure exactly). Anyway, this was a very quick and efficient process but I didn't write it down unfortunately. Does anyone out there know what to do? Thanks in anticipation

Forgot Your Account Password
For Lion/Mountain Lion
    Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
     When the menubar appears select Terminal from the Utilities menu.
     Enter resetpassword at the prompt and press RETURN. Follow
     instructions in the dialog window that will appear.
     Or see Reset a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Password and
     OS X Lion- Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.

Someone gave me a q 4 I need to set admin password what do I do I do?, someone gave me a q 4 I need to set admin password what do I do I do?

some one gave me a Q4 and I need the admin password... what Do Ido? ( he doesnot remember the password it belonged to his wife and she died...}

Reinstall from install DVD.
That is the only safe thing to do with a used computer.
Allan

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