How do you recover the admin password if you've forgotten it?

I need to change my admin password, but I do not remember the old password. How do I recover my old password?

Mac OS X: Changing or resetting an account password - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1274 - resetting password on regular and administrator accounts if you have the installer disc (OSX 10.1-10.6.8) or AppleID (OSX 10.7-10.8)

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How to recover the admin password

Enabling the parental control function has changed the admin status to a managed one which was not intended.
How can I recover the admin status? I have tried to follow a few instructions found in the internet that suggested to use the single mode, but I could not find the necessary admin files that needed to be removed so that the Admin Assistant program would start at booting. Instead, the system is not starting at all.
How can I solve this problem?

Chong007,
boot into Recovery mode by holding down ⌘R as your MacBook Pro starts up. When the OS X Utilities menu appears on your desktop, select Utilities from your menu bar, and from there select Terminal. In Terminal, run the following command:
resetpassword
Follow its instructions, and your administrative user’s password will be changed accordingly. Exit Terminal, then select Restart from the Apple menu to reboot into normal mode. When the login screen appears, log in as your administrative user, and then reset your administrative user’s password keychain so that it won’t constantly ask you for your administrative user’s password when you need to do administrative tasks.
If you find that your administrative user is still parentally managed, you could reboot into Single User mode, and enter the following commands there:
/sbin/mount -uw /
/bin/rm -f /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
/sbin/reboot
These should allow you to create a new administrative user, from which you should be able to reset your original administrative user to a non-managed state.

Recover the admin password

Hi,
How to recover the admin password.

One of the setup options for vFDD is to enable SMTP and setup the SMTP email address. If this has been done, at the login screen user can click on the "Forgot Your Password" link. You will be prompted with a dialogue to enter your username and an email will be sent to that username to help you reset your password. This process works for System Admin account as well.
If you have not configured SMTP email, then you must reinstall vFDD.

I bought a used Macbook that came with the OS 10.7 upgrade, How can I reset the admin password?

How can I reset the admin password I don't have the old password. I bought it used and the disk's it came with are OS 10.5 how can i get this password reset without losing any of the upgrades or files?

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.

How do I reset the admin password on MacBook Air

Does anyone know how to reset the admin password on MacBook Air ?

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”.

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

How can you reset your admin password when you can't remember it?

Can you please tell me how I can reset my admin password when I can't remember it?

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.

How do I locate the Admin Password

I need to find and change the admin password so I can download mavericks. contacting the last Admin person has yielded no info

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How do I change the admin password on my MacBook pro

I have forgotten my password and I don't want to wipe my hard drive how do I change the password?
I have done the following:
Rebooted selected a language, it then went right back to the installer but there was no change password as an option.
Under disk utility it was not high lighted.

First, make sure caps lock is not on.
Another reason why your password might not be recognized is that the keyboard layout (input source) has been switched without your realizing it. At the login screen, you can cycle through the available layouts by pressing the key combination command-space or command-option-space. See this support article.
You must back up all data before continuing, unless you've already done so. If you need to back up but can't log in, ask for instructions.
If the user account is associated with an Apple ID, and you know the Apple ID password, then maybe the Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.
Otherwise*, boot into Recovery mode. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window opens.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Follow the prompts to reset the password. It's safest to choose a password that includes only the characters a-z, A-Z, and 0-9.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.
You should now be able to log in with the new password, but your Keychain will be reset (empty.) If you've forgotten the Keychain password (which is ordinarily the same as your login password), there's no way to recover it.
*Note: If you've activated FileVault, this procedure doesn't apply. Follow instead these instructions.

Is there a way to change the admin password if you don't know the old one?

This situation is a nightmare. I sold my iBook G3 lime green clamshell on eBay recently, and my buyer was a complete idiot. She sent me the computer back because she was a complete moron and couldn't figure out how to use it, so I accepted the computer back and gave her a full refund.
When I ship out computers to the new buyers, I always do a erase and a fresh install, so when they receive the computer, they get the welcome screen. Well, of course she went through the whole process of completing her personal information, including her admin password. Well, the jerk forgot to mention to me what her password is so I could alter it to my information.
Now I am trying to contact her and she isn't responding. It has been over 3 days. Is there ANY way that I can bypass this glitch? I have the original install disks, so I can do it that way? I will be so angry if I am stuck not having a password for this computer that was originally mine to begin with (and is now mine again), especially if I want to resell.
HELP.

Thanks. I had already accessed that after I posted this just from googling it. But I am in the process of doing a fresh install. I just rebooted holding down the C key so I can do it that way. I need to get my information in there anyway, not hers, and since I just received it a few days ago, I didn't add anything on there yet.
What a hassle, but at least I know it's possible.
Thanks for responding.

How do i override the admin password

my macbook air won't recognize my admin password so I can't add a new printer or do updates

OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.8 MountainLion & 10.9 Mavericks
Reset Password using Recovery HD
Boot into Recovery Partition.
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.

How to find/reset the admin password?

Hi,
I'm new to this. The admin userid/password that was successfully used in the past in not being recognized now.
I was trying to log in to Adobe LiveCycle ES ver 8.2 from http://localhost:8080/adminui/login.faces and receive the message "Username and password do not match".
Is there a way for me to reset the userid/password ? I cannot reset a user's password before accessing thie admin account first.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank You.
Yajiv

Some people have had success in LC ES 8.2 with running the following SQL statement on the LiveCycle backend database. It re-sets the password of the 'Super Administrator' user to 'password':
UPDATE adobe.edcprincipallocalaccountentity, adobe.edcprincipaluserentity
SET password = 'TXScDjEEQCzWccUMUdf8wijx/hE=', salt = 'JNIBnmos3d0WE9W8oquFIQ=='
WHERE adobe.edcprincipallocalaccountentity.refuserprincipalid = adobe.edcprincipaluserentity.id and adobe.edcprincipaluserentity.uidstring = 'administrator';
adobe = the schema name
This is risky - if something goes wrong, you will have to re-bootstrap.

How do you change the administration password if you have no CD?

My dad set up my computer and therefor he had the administration password. I just moved out and did not leave on a good not with him, so I can not access the password. I was wondering if you could help me reset it.

kappy as got good advice please read here;
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5028206?tstart=0

I updated Firefox to 32.0.2 and lost all passwords. Oddly still have all bookmarks. How can I recover the old passwords?

The title sums it up, if there's more information I need to provide please let me know. Currently when I look up passwords using the password manager in tools, options, security, show passwords it is empty. Hoping there's a way to restore all of the old passwords.

Your System Details list shows that you have a user.js file in the profile folder to initialize prefs each time Firefox starts.
The user.js file is only present if you or other software has created this file and normally it wouldn't be there.
You can check its content with a plain text editor (right-click: Open with) if you didn't create this file yourself.
The user.js file is read each time Firefox is started and initializes preferences to the value specified in this file, so preferences set via user.js can only be changed temporarily for the current session.
You can delete possible user.js and numbered prefs-##.js files and rename (or delete) the prefs.js file to reset all prefs to the default value including prefs set via user.js and prefs that are no longer supported in the current Firefox release.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resetting_preferences

How do I reset the administrator password if I have forgotten the previous password?

When I bought my iMac I used my Apple ID as my administrator password. I have since changed my Apple ID but failed to keep a record of the old one (stupid I know!) and I now need the administrator password to download software. Can anyone help me to
1) recover the old administrator password or
2) set up a new administrator password
without losing all the data and photos on my iMac?
Thanks

OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion & 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”.

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