I forget my login password

i have forgot my password to login in to my macbook pro v10.8.3. i have try all sorts of solutions but still not working. any help?

Have you read for possible solutions over in the "More Like This" thread over here?----------------------->
If so, then your only other alternatives are to try extra extra hard to remember your password and/or take your MBP to your local Apple Store or an AASP. After the techs do their magic, get a password that you can easily remember, write it down & keep in a safe & secure place that you won't forget.
GOOD LUCK!

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What do you do when you forget the login password for your computer?

I just recently brought an iMac and forgot the login? how do I recover this without losing the infor I already loaded onto the computer??

Reset the password as in this link, which works for Lion and Mountain Lion (the latest OS):
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/

Macs forget wireless login password

I installed a Time Capsule last night for some friends. They have an iMac, 3 Macbooks, and a Canon wireless printer. They previously had an old Netgear router, so I pulled the Netgear and gave the Time Capsule the same SSID and WPA password. Everything seemed to work, their computers could back up, and even the printer worked. I was proud that I'd replaced their router without having to do anything to any of their other hardware.
Today, I got a frantic call saying that the network was down. Their DSL modem was alive, and the light on the Time Machine was green, but they had no wireless connection on 2 of their computers (the other two weren't home). They could see their network in the Airport drop-down menu, but when they tried to select it, they'd get "Connection timed out."
I suggested that they unplug the Time Capsule and let it reboot. After it came up, their Macs stil didn't connect automatically. However, if they clicked on their network, they were prompted for their network password, and they could successfully connect.
They've been using their old Netgear router for a couple of years without this problem. I don't think that the Canon printer had a problem reconnecting (at least they didn't mention it). They're still running Leopard. One of the two machines is fully patched, and the other isn't, but I did install the latest Airport update on it when I connected it to the Time Capsule yesterday.
This one has me scratching my head. I have an Airport Extreme myself, and have never had a problem with it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

so I pulled the Netgear and gave the Time Capsule the same SSID and WPA password.
This is likely confusing the computers as they already had this information stored to connect to the Netgear router. When the computers tried to connect, they were looking for the Netgear network which was no longer there.
Suggest that you change the SSID at least, to setup new connections on the Macs, not in conflict with other older settings.
You'll also need to set the new SSID as the first connection that each Mac will look for first when searching for a wireless network. Post back if you are not sure on how to do this.

Login Password

A friend on mine cannot remember her login password on her MacBook Air. What is the best process in getting it back for her?

Hi David Camps-Campins1,
Thanks for the question. If I understand correctly, you cannot login to a user profile on the computer. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you resolve or isolate the issue.
OS X Yosemite: If you forget your login password
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a great day,
Mario

Resent a Login Password

OS X Mountain Lion
I read somewhere that if someone forget the login password, it can be reset by Restart the MAC and hold Command+R (Recovery HD Partition).
From the menu, choose Utilities --> Terminal and than type resetpassword and bla bla bla
Now, I wonder, if all above is true, what is the purpose of a Login Password?

That is true.
There are security measures that you can take to protect your computer.
1. Do not let others use your computer.
2. Set Firmware password.
3. Use FileVault encryption.
For more on this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10580

Forget my ipad2 login password.Try many times but still fail. How can i re-start it?

forget my ipad2 login password.Try many times but still fail. How can
i re-art it?

You will have to restore it with the last computer that you synced with in order to restore all of your data. This will tell you how to restore the iPad.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414

In Yosemite, I can;t operate for more than a few minutes with Keychain or Safari asking for my login password. How can I turn this off, and still be safe?

Using Yosemite, I an't seem to work for more than a few minutes without being asked for my login password. Keychain wants it, Safari wants it, iCloud wants it..the list goes on. Then in 10 minutes or so, they all want it again. Passwords are being stored by Safari as usual, but new tabs or pages bring up the request. How can I turn this off and still have protection?

Tutorial: Resolving Keychain Issues
If you can't access your keychain, or forget your password If you can't get into your keychain file because you've forgotten your password or the keychain file appears to be corrupt, there are a couple of options.
First, if you've forgotten your password, you can use the "Keychain First Aid" utility to make the keychain password the same as the login password. This can be accomplished via the following process:
1. Open Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities)
2. Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Preferences"
3. Click the "First Aid" tab
4. Make sure the "Synchronize login keychain password" box is checked
5. Close the Preferences window
6. Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Keychain First Aid"
7. Enter your username and password
8. Click the "Repair" button
The second option is to completely delete your keychain then recreate it. This routine is useful if your keychain appears to be corrupt or otherwise inaccessible. This can be accomplished as follows:
1. Launch Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities)
2. Click "Show Keychains" in the lower-left corner of the window.
3. Select the problematic keychain from the left-hand pane.
4. Navigate to the "File" menu and select "Delete Keychain '(name of keychain)'"
5. Check all options for deletion and press "OK"
6. Create a new keychain by going to the "File" menu, then "New" and selecting
"New Keychain"
7. You can now make this keychain your default if you desire by selecting it, then
going to the "File" menu and selecting "Make '(name of keychain)' Default"
Login as root and perform repair In some cases, problems with keychains can only be resolved when logged in as the root user.
First, you want to enable the root user:
1. OS X Mountain Lion: Enable and disable the root user
2. OS X Lion: Enable and disable the root user
3. Mac OS X 10.6: Enabling the root user
4. Enabling and using the "root" user in Mac OS X
After enabling the root user, and logging in under this account, again open Keychain Access. First attempt repairs using Keychain First Aid, and failing that, delete then recreate the keychain as described above while logged in as root.
Persistently asked for stored passwords If you are persistently asked for passwords in various applications that you have specified should be remembered in a keychain, your "login" keychain may not be active for one reason or another.
Navigate to ~/Library/Keychains/ (this is the Library folder inside your user's home folder). Find the file named "login.keychain" and double-click it.
Failing that, select the "login" keychain within the Keychain Access application and make sure it is the default keychain by going to the "File" menu and selecting "Make 'Login' Default"
Turn off Keychain synchronization in applications having problems If specific applications are experiencing issues when accessing password-protected material, the Keychain may be to blame.
The above comes from an article published on MacFixit.com.

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G5 iMac forgets its Admin password

My 3½ year-old G5 iMac running OS 10.4.11 forgets its Administrator password after running for a few hours. I discovered this problem when I tried to install the latest Security Update. The computer kept telling me that the password I was entering was wrong. Does the same thing with another known-good keyboard. Rebooting temporarily fixes the problem, but when I attempt to switch to another account after a few hours of running, I get the "Login Shake." Any ideas?

My guess is RAM, CPU, or better yet, the HD, it is approaching the life expectancy of many IDE/ATA drives.

HT4798 I've forgotten my login password to my MacBook Pro

I have a 13" MacBook Pro and I've forgotten my login password. It's running on mountain lion and didn't come with a installation/reset disk. How can I log into my computer? Please help.

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
     OS X Lion- Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.
If you cannot do the above then try this:
1. Boot to Safe Mode by restarting and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-S keys until a black screen with white type appears.
2. At the prompt, type the following commands pressing return after each command line:
     /sbin/fsck -yf
     If you do not receive a "Filesystem OK" message then repeat this command until
     you do. If after seven tries you still do not receive a "Filesystem OK" message,
     then the system is corrupted and needs to be reinstalled.
     mount -uw /
     cd /private/var/db/netinfo
     mv local.nidb local.old
     rm ../.AppleSetupDone
     shutdown -r now
The second-to-last command above will cause OS X to think that the operating system is newly installed, and when the new owner starts up the computer it will send him/her to the startup wizard where he/she can start a new user without reinstalling.
This last method does not actually change a password. It simply removes the user accounts and lets you create an initial admin account as if the computer were new out of the box.
How to reset the OS X password without a startup CD:
Reboot into Single-user Mode. Enter the following and press RETURN after each command line
   1. Type fsck -fy
   2. Type mount -uw /
   3. Type passwd <username>
I have never tried this method myself.

When am trying to download acrobot standard its prompting with user login password and its not getting downloaded.

Hi
When am trying to download acrobot standard its prompting with user login password and its not getting downloaded.

When you (or someone) first switched on your computer, you (or someone) had to choose a password. This protects your computer, and you need it to install most software or change the system. We can't help you if you forget it, sorry.

Forget unix root password

Hi
A LAN administrator forgets his UNIX root password. Yes, I know it is frustrating to forget the root password. Any way, is there a way to login and change or reset the root password? Someone tried to boot off a Solaris 7 CD and cancelled the options INSTALLED and UPGRADE, then tried to mount /dev/rdks/c0t0d0s0 /mnt, but not working.
Thank you
Cindy

Hey Hey..
The option of "boot cdrom -s" , mounting the disk's root partition using a simple mount command and then editing the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files works fine whatever Solaris version.
Just make sure that your /etc/passwd root entry in the disk's root
(rememeber to /<mount point>/etc/passwd and not /etc/passwd when booting off the CD is like this.
root::0:1:Super-User:/:/sbin/sh
Note that the second filed in this file is BLANK.
Then also make sure that the /etc/shadow file entry alos looks
like this.
root::11515::::::
Note that the second filed in this file is BLAN here too.
Now you are all set and root has no password when you do a
reboot of the system through your disk.
HTH
Shridhar

I forgot my keychain login password

I don't remember my keychain password (the one you use to unlock the keychain and stuff). I've tried a bunch of different passwords that I use...like my admin. password but it doesn't work...how can I reset it or recover it? thanks
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

> I was interested to note your comment about being unable to reset the login keychain password after resetting the admin password on a computer with the install disk.
Resetting your login password with the install disc does not reset the login keychain password. When creating a login account and password, the password for the account's login keychain is the same as the login account password. If you want the login keychain password to be different, you must change it via Keychain Access. Changing the login account's password via an install disc does not change the login keychain password for the login account. I believe this is for security reasons. Although a thief can gain access to a person's login account and home folder/directory by using an install disc to manually change the login password for the account, this does not change the login keychain password also so sensitive data stored in a person's keychain cannot be accessed without knowing the original login account password that matches the original login keychain password.
1. If you require password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver, someone can't. To have your keychain extra secure, you can also make your login keychain password different from your login password but if your login password is not the same as your default keychain password, you'll be asked for the password whenever an application needs access to your keychain and your keychain is locked - but this would be more trouble than it is worth IMO.
2. Same as the answer to 1.
3. Someone can't if you disable automatic login for your login account which is highly recommended. Even though I currently live alone, I have automatic login disabled for my login account. If someone steals my PB and has access to an install disc to manually change the password for my login account, they can gain access to all my data in my home folder/directory but not gain access to sensitive data stored in my login keychain which is not automatically changed when manually changing the login password with an install disc.
This is also where utilizing an encrypted disk image comes into play to store sensitive data but to be extra secure, you should not store the password for an encrypted disk image in your keychain. My encrypted disk images require that I manually enter the password to mount the encrypted disk images but the downside when doing so is if you forget the password for the encrypted disk image, all data stored within the disk will be lost with no way to recover it.
Overall it is probably best to store the password for an encrypted disk image in your keychain but if you give someone else access to your Mac when logged in to your account, any encrypted disk image will mount automatically when selected which is also why it is best not to allow anyone else to access your Mac via your login account.

Reset forgotten login password on imac os x 10.7.5

need help i can't remember my login password and i can't reset it.
i tried reboot command r utilities reset password but didn't work
please advice thank you

Resetting Password
1. Shut down comp & wait a few minutes.
2. Turn on & at the same time hold down the “command” & “R” keys.
3. Next screen….. In the menu bar click on Utilities (NOT OS X UTILITIES)
4. In the drop down menu, click on Terminal.
5. In the terminal pop up small window: Type exactly—> resetpassword Hit return key.
6. Reset password window will pop up. Follow the onscreen instructions to reset password. Make sure you select the admin account to reset the password.
7. You can ignore the “keychain” pop up windows, which is what I did. Does not affect anything.
You can do the keychain stuff at your leisure.
8. Quit out of everything & restart your computer.
9. Enter your new reset password.
Also, check out the following User Tip: Reset the user password in OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite
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When selecting passwords, make sure it's one that you will NEVER forget AND no one else can figure out.
Old school--- > Print it out & keep in a safe place. A place that ONLY you know about AND never forget. Also helpful when you cannot get pass the log-in screen.
New school---> Get a password manager utility. Highly recommend 1Password which is shareware. Another good password manager utility is Dashlane. Best of all, it's FREE!
Do a Google search for free password managers.

Mail forgets my aol passwords

Mail forgets my AOL passwords and it does not help when I re-enter them. I have tried deleting Internet Passwords in Keychain Access (which usually fixes the problem), but this is not helping now.
Thanks for your help,
Steve

Back up all data.
Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the icon grid.
Select the login keychain from the list on the left side of the Keychain Access window. If your default keychain has a different name, select that.
If the lock icon in the top left corner of the window shows that the keychain is locked, click to unlock it. You'll be prompted for the keychain password, which is the same as your login password, unless you've changed it.
Right-click or control-click the login entry in the list. From the menu that pops up, select Change Settings for Keychain "login". In the sheet that opens, uncheck both boxes, if not already unchecked.
From the menu bar, select
Keychain Access ▹ Preferences ▹ First Aid
If the box marked Keep login keychain unlocked is not checked, check it.
Select
Keychain Access ▹ Keychain First Aid
from the menu bar and repair the keychain. Quit Keychain Access.

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