Forgotten Admin Password AND Other password

Hi, I have just purchased a new iMac but now, having had a long time away from it, attempted to start my old iMac but have forgotten the admin password! I remember the figures but not the text even with a reminder! Is there anyway I can open my old iMac as i need data from it & will want to sync it with new one to take data from it? Am I an idiot or what?

Not sure what the 'Other' password is you mention, but you can reset the Admin password as noted in this User tip (following the instructions under On Recovery):
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4101
To start in Recovery Mode restart holding down Command + r

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Thanks.

Definatly get another disk, very handy to have. There is a way to reset the password, but you are better of searching google for that.

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tzbikowski wrote:
You need to google it as such link may be considered inappropriate for this forum.
Not.

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Forgot Your Account Password
For Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks
    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:
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Hello eadbentley:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
This knowledge base article should help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106156
I am not sure what - exactly - is happening. You should be able to start fro your install DVD and proceed from there.
Barry

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Forgot Your Account Password
For Snow Leopard and earlier
    Mac OS X 10.6- If you forget your administrator 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
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How can I block a website without using an admin account and other accounts for my children?

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For just simple site blocking, try BlockSite: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3145/
You can password protect BlockSite, but it is possible to bypass.
For full parental controls, there is FoxFilter: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4351/ - however this seems to be fee supported.

Stored Procedure to Get Admin Users and Other Users

Hey,
I am new to stored procedures in Oracle and would really appreciate the help! I have two tables:
Users_
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1 jsmith - 1 - 0
2 brogerson - 1 - 1
3 jloren - 2 - 0
Groups*
ID - GROUPNAME
1 - ITUsers
2 - AcctUsers
I would like to create a procedure that accepts a users username and returns every user in their group and the user id, or if the user is marked IS_ADMIN, I want the procedure to return all users in all groups.
How would I do this? Ideally I would like to funnel the result into a DataGridView in C#.
Thank you in advance,
Jeffrey Kevin Pry
Edited by: jeffrey.pry on May 10, 2010 10:42 AM
Edited by: jeffrey.pry on May 10, 2010 10:43 AM

Hi,
jeffrey.pry wrote:
... How could I expand your view (without namespace) to include just the groupname into the list if they are a regular user, or all of the group names in the list if they are an admin?Sorry, I don't understand. I thought that was exactly what the code I posted did.
Since I don't have versions of your tables, I'll use Scott's tables to illustrate.
This view does what I think you want:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW p_users
AS
SELECT       u.ename, u.job, u.deptno
,       g.dname
,       pu.ename   AS p_ename
FROM       scott.emp     pu
JOIN       scott.dept     g     ON     pu.deptno     = g.deptno
                      OR     pu.job          = 'MANAGER'
JOIN       scott.emp     u     ON     u.deptno     = g.deptno
;On the rows where p_ename is not the name of a MANAGER (SCOTT, for example), we see only the people who work in the same department (deptn=20, dname='RESEARCH') as p_ename:
SELECT     *
FROM     p_users
WHERE     p_ename     = 'SCOTT'
ENAME      JOB           DEPTNO DNAME          P_ENAME
SMITH      CLERK             20 RESEARCH       SCOTT
JONES      MANAGER           20 RESEARCH       SCOTT
SCOTT      ANALYST           20 RESEARCH       SCOTT
ADAMS      CLERK             20 RESEARCH       SCOTT
FORD       ANALYST           20 RESEARCH       SCOTTBut on the rows where p_ename is a MANAGER (JONES for example) we see everybody, no matter what their department is:
SELECT     *
FROM     p_users
WHERE     p_ename     = 'JONES'
ENAME      JOB           DEPTNO DNAME          P_ENAME
SMITH      CLERK             20 RESEARCH       JONES
ALLEN      SALESMAN          30 SALES          JONES
WARD       SALESMAN          30 SALES          JONES
JONES      MANAGER           20 RESEARCH       JONES
MARTIN     SALESMAN          30 SALES          JONES
BLAKE      MANAGER           30 SALES          JONES
CLARK      MANAGER           10 ACCOUNTING     JONES
SCOTT      ANALYST           20 RESEARCH       JONES
KING       PRESIDENT         10 ACCOUNTING     JONES
TURNER     SALESMAN          30 SALES          JONES
ADAMS      CLERK             20 RESEARCH       JONES
JAMES      CLERK             30 SALES          JONES
FORD       ANALYST           20 RESEARCH       JONES
MILLER     CLERK             10 ACCOUNTING     JONESBy the way, table g is the view is needed only if you want the view to include columns found only in the groups table.
Otherwise, we can do the self-join directly between two copies of the users table (or scott.emp, as in the example):
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW p_users
AS
SELECT       u.ename, u.job, u.deptno
,       pu.ename   AS p_ename
FROM       scott.emp     pu
JOIN       scott.emp     u     ON     pu.deptno     = u.deptno
                      OR     pu.job          = 'MANAGER'
;I hope that answers your question.
If not, post an example of what you'd like to do. For example
"I like to have a view such that a query like this:
SELECT ... FROM p_users WHERE ...
would produce ...
but if I change the WHERE clause to ...
then it would produce ..."
If you want examples using small versions of your own tables, post CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements so I can create tables like yours.

HT202280 resetting admin password

I need help resetting my admin password. I have 4 computer logins on one computer I merged them on one big imac. When I set what I thought was the admin password, that password is for the other 3. The admin I forgot what it is. Trying to keep others from being able to access one. Well that did not work! Help!
I understand there is a way to do it using my apple ID How?

Your AppleID and your administrator passwords have nothing to do with one another. If you cannot remember your Administrator's password then reset it by following the instructions in:
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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

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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.

I've forgotten my admin password and i don't have astartup disc to reset it?

i have forgotten my admin password and i don't have the startup disc to reset the password is there anyother way of being able to reset it without the startup disc?

OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.8 MountainLion & 10.9 Mavericks
Reset Password starting from Recovery HD
Start the computer,then press and hold down command and R keys to start into recovery partition.
When you see the Apple logo, release the keys.
Wait until OS X Utilities window shows up.
Move the mouse to the menubar at the top and click "Utilities", then select "Terminal"
from the drop down.
Terminal window will appear.
Type in resetpassword and press enter on the keyboard.
Leave the Terminal window open.
Reset Password Utility window will open with Macintosh HD selected.
Select the user account from the popup menu box.
Enter a new password.
Reenter the new password for the user.
Enter a hint.
Click the "Save" button.
Click  in the menubar and select Restart.
Log in.
If Keychain dialog box appears, select “Create New Keychain”.

HT1752 I have forgotten my admin password and need to create another user

I have forgotten my admin password and need to create another user. Have no disks to boot from!!

You need an installer disc in order to reset an admin password. I don't know if the following will work on your system, but give it a try:
You can also reset the password by printing out (or writing down) and carefully following these steps.
First, find the short name of the admin user on the machine. The easiest way of doing this is by looking at what their directory is called in the Users folder.
Now, start up the computer while holding down Cmd-S. It should boot into a command line. (If it doesn't, you may need to reset the firmware password, which is detailed elsewhere.)
Type these exact lines:
mount -uw /
ifconfig lo0 up
cd /var/db/netinfo
netinfod -s local
Now you'll need that short name. (You did write it down, didn't you?) Type "passwd", a space, and the short name of the admin. For example, if the admin was - rather prosaically - called "admin", you'd type "passwd admin".
The computer will now prompt you to change the password for "admin" (or whatever the short name was). Go ahead and type a new password.
Now, type:
sync
reboot
and the machine will reboot. The admin password should now be changed.

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