Coolestguidesontheplanet.com | Neil Gee

coolest guides on the planet

Coolest Guides On The Planet

Neil Gee

  • Home
  • macOS
  • WebDev
  • All Posts
  • Contact

Reset Forgotten Admin Password OSX 10.11 El Capitan

October 11, 2015 2 Comments

The passwords for all accounts on OSX 10.11 El Capitan, OSX 10.10 Yosemite, OSX 10.9 Mavericks and OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion including admin and standard user accounts can be reset and changed when booted from the Recovery Partition on OSX.

Boot into Recovery Partition

Reboot into the Recovery Drive by choosing the ‘Apple‘ menu > Restart, hold down the ‘command’ + ‘r’ keys on the keyboard during the start up process when you see the start up screen you can let go. When the machine boots eventually you will see the OS X Utilities screen.

osx-boot-recovery-partition

Go to the Utilites menu and select Terminal

 

osx-reset-password-terminal

At the prompt type ‘resetpassword’ (hit enter)

 

 

reset-password-osx

This launches the Reset Password screen, select the Volume Hard Drive in the top part of the window pane, then for the user that you need to reset select the user account in the lower part then add and confirm the new password and click save, you get a confirmation screen and details about the keychain account.

Go to the Apple Menu and click Restart to boot back to the normal hard drive and the new password will take effect immediately.

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Google
  • Facebook

Related

Cats: macOS, Tech

  • Pingback: [ASK] apple - Mac drive not showing up on resetpassword screen | Some Piece of Information()

  • Pingback: 5 种方法教你重置 Mac 用户登录密码 | 一日一技 · Mac - 来科技-来科技()

Subscribe

Coolest Guides on the Planet
  • Latest
  • Popular
  • Comments
  • Setting up a Local Development WordPress Environment on Mac OSX Setting up a Local Development WordPress Environment on Mac OSX
  • Sync’ing a GitHub Fork via the Command Line Sync’ing a GitHub Fork via the Command Line
  • Remove MySQL instance from macOS or OSX via the command line Remove MySQL instance from macOS or OSX via the command line
  • Set Up Let’s Encrypt SSL on cPanel WHM Server Set Up Let’s Encrypt SSL on cPanel WHM Server
  • Compare the diff of 2 folders in the Command Line Compare the diff of 2 folders in the Command Line
  • Today Week Month All
  • Jetpack plugin with Stats module needs to be enabled.
  • Today Week Month All
  • Sorry. No data yet.
Ajax spinner

Tags

apache backup baseband Bing boot Coolest Guy on the Planet Coolest Guy Planet cpanel css custom database drupal el capitan error Firmware Google image instadmg ios iphone jailbreak keys Keywords lion mac mysql OSX PageRank php private public Rank Rank Checker ranking redirect remote rsa SEO SERPS shell ssh terminal Twitter unstoppables Yahoo
WordPress Workflow
Get DesktopServer
StudioPress Premium WordPress Themes

Donate a Beer to the Coolest Guides

Copyright © 2016· Neil Gee - All Rights Reserved - Hosted by Servint