I don't know my MacBook Pro password! Help!

I don't know my Pro's password!! Help!

Hold “Option” at boot and select the “Recovery” disk at the boot menu
Wait for “Mac OS X Utilities” menu to appear, indicating that you are booted into recovery mode
Click on the “Utilities” menu and select “Terminal”
Type the following:
resetpasswordConfirm the user account and then the password change and reboot Mac OS X 10.7 as usual with your new password
This replaces the “Reset Password” menu item that used to be in place prior to OS X 10.7, which was one of two original methods of resetting a Mac OS X 10.6 or prior password. Why the change to the Terminal method? Probably for increased security now that recovery partitions are standard with Lion.

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    Reset a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Password - http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/
    Message was edited by: Limnos

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