Purchased my 1st mac, MacBook Pro today.

Purchased my 1st Mac today, a MacBook Pro. Cannot login with the password I set up. Type in pw and hit enter...nothing! Any suggestions. Thanks!

Hold the command and r keys down and boot the computer, you'll boot into the Recovery HD partition.
Launch the Terminal program and type
resetpassword
and press enter, follow the instructions to reset your password.

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