I lose my password

I want download an application but I lose my password what can I do please

Put your install DVD into the optical drive (CD/DVD drive) and reboot. Be sure to either use the disc that came with your Mac, or, if you installed a later Mac OS X version from disc, use the newer disc. As soon as you hear the boot chime, hold down the "c" key on your keyboard (or the Option Key until the Install Disk shows up) until the apple shows up. That will force your MacBook to boot from the install DVD in the optical drive.
When it does start up, you'll see a panel asking you to choose your language. Choose your language and press the Return key on your keyboard once. It will then present you with an Installation window. Completely ignore this window and click on Utilities in the top menu and scroll down to Reset Password. After resetting the password use Startup Disk from the same menu to choose your hard drive for startup and restart.

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== User Agent ==
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In Firefox 3.6 on Windows you can hide the menu bar via "View > Toolbars" or via the right click context menu on a toolbar.
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IPad loses exchange password often.

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Hi all.. I'm a newbie with Mac server, an MCSE and former Network Adminstrator of an all Windows domain, now in a mixed environment and responsible for the Mac server/clients as well as the Windows server/clients.
In January we attempted a migration from Panther server to Tiger/Xserve, on a brand new server. It appeared to have worked, and users were able to log in successfully after being created in Workgroup Manager, and given passwords.
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Tony,
I wish to thank you for the helpful comments/suggestions to download the article at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.4/en/c3gs4.html
It was an excellent quick guide that I followed to the letter, and then I called Apple Support and was able to further troubleshoot our server/client connection issues. When I left at the end of the day, the server is in great shape, although we still have some connection issues and tomorrow one of our Mac teachers who used to manage our Mac server will show me how to re-create the shared folders/shares and then add the users to the shares.
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Your link to the article was a terrific start for me, and the Apple technician was most impressed that I had already covered all of the suggestions in that article when we spoke.
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Every week I seem to lose my passwords for my Mac Pro mail service. Cant get or send emails.

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Every time I sync my iPhone 4 I lose the password to my GFs wifi network.

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* http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4928/clearcachew.png
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You are being a rediculous rationalizer.
If you can't change anything or help at all, why respond just to rationalize and twist what I'm asking?
And to assume I read the article before this happened was silly.
I am saying clearly, this is buggy behaviour that should be changed.
Every other thing when you encrypt a backup, you are encrypting the backup, not disabling your ability to every make an unencrypted backup again if you forget those backup passwords.
I know you have no means to change it and absolutely nothing helpful to add I don't already know whch I indicated had you bothered to read instead of jumping in with the rationalizations and repeating what i already said. You are just talking to yourself with rediculous remarks like "blame yourself" for not taking some article seriuosly I had not read and should not have had to, because it's a silly buggy quirk in the design I hope apple will address.
You must not work much with encrypted backups with other companies to not understand, usually, when you're encyrpting a backup, you're encrypting that file, not preventing yourself from ever making an unencrypted backup again if you lose the password. Backups and the phone are two different things. Please do not respond with unhelpful ignorance again. You have no clue what you are talking about in terms of security implications. Turning backups off would not let you "take apart an encrypted backup" if it's encrypted properly. The encryption is in the backup file itself, which would have no affect on creating unencrypted backups after deleting the old encrypted ones. I tried to be graceful but you really have no clue of the security implications and you are being very silly saying I should have taken an article seriously I hadn't read until I ran into this quirky behavior. You have no idea what choice is. Wow. You know, it's possible for someone to want to change a password they forgot on backups without having to wipe out their whole phone config, messages, etc. This in no way jepordizes the security of backups made with the old password. You are being clueless on this. Please do not respond if all you have to add is rationalizations of how any other way would be insecure when you don't know what you're talking about. You're snide remark that someone "does't know security" if they want to turn off encrypted phone backups or change the password on future backups, if they forgot it displays a huge amount of ignorance not worth trying to correct. Apple's great. Doesn't mean they don't make mistakes.

How secure is master password?

Hi
I have very sensitive information on my iBook. I can choose
master password after screen saver/sleep or FileVault.
FileVault encrypts the info which I feel uncomfortable with
as it may make it difficult to backup.
Can the password be removed by a someone who takes the
computer? Is there any way around the master password.
If the hard drive has to be erased to clear the password
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I go to coffee shops alot, I am careful so far but someday I
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thanks in advance
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Hi, Mark.
While it is possible to remove the Master Password from a Mac on which user's Home folders are protected with FileVault, doing so does not permit one to then change the passwords on FileVault-protected accounts. One would still need to know the password for the user account.
It is important to choose good passwords. Tiger offers a password assistant that helps you choose good passwords.
If you don't want to use FileVault, using Encrypted Disk Images is the best and easiest route to encrypting and password-protecting select data on a Mac. There are two AppleCare Knowledge Base documents you should read in relation to encrypted disk images:
- "Mac OS X: About Encrypted Disk Images."
- "Mac OS X: How to create a password-protected (encrypted) disk image."
- "Disk Utility 10.5 Help: Creating a disk image."
You can even burn an encrypted disk image to CD or DVD.
The most important thing to remember about encrypted disk images is to never lose the password. If you lose it, you will never be able to open it. If you rely on the password being saved in your Keychain, and later format your drive, you lose the password saved in your keychain, so write it down and save it in a secure place, just in case. For added security, do not add the password of an encrypted disk image to your Keychain when this option is offered.
Note that some of the information above is from the "Security" chapter of my book, Troubleshooting Mac® OS X.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X
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