I was experimenting setting up parental controls on my macbook pro and selected to set up my current account with controls. Apparently my admin name and password are not what i thought, because now I cannot unlock them.

I thought my admin user name and password were the same I sign on with, apparently not because now I am locked out of my own computer. I took two hours to reload mavericks from ap store, because i was told it would give me the option of changing the password. It did not. Sooooo, that's where I am. Thanks for any help.

Hi wlahey,
If you are having issues using your admin user name and password on your MacBook Pro, you may find the following article helpful:
OS X Mavericks: If your administrator password was not accepted
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14014
Regards,
- Brenden

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