My computer is not accepting my password

I just bought a new mac book pro and transfered everything from my old hard drive to the new computer.  Once that was finished a screen came up for me to type in my password.  I typed it in and is not accepting it so I can't do anything on my new computer.

See #6 here and reset the password, then follow the links to fix the Keychain also.
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