Comments on: Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:46:23 +0000

Worked great for me, many thanks!

By: jen

jen — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:00:38 +0000

worked perfectly, thank you!!!

By: andy

andy — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:30:46 +0000

hello,

i did what is posted and it worked because now my imac boots up like its the first time. but now it gets stuck once the little movie begins. everything just freezes!
can anybody help me with this problem??

thanks.

By: simon

simon — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:40:46 +0000

thanx alot it is fantastic

By: steve

steve — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:27:05 +0000

Thanks for making the comment-You saved me a lot of hassle.

It would have helped if it was in the post!

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:34:32 +0000

Works like a dream, Thank you so much

By: jence

jence — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:45:10 +0000

hello again, i was trying this one but it says root device is mounted read-only, firewire unable to determine security mode, defaulting to full-secure…. please help me what to do. thanks a lot…

By: jence

jence — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:22:40 +0000

i have the same problem, i cannot downlod anything on my mac pro because there’s anadmin password. what wwill i press on the keyboard for apple and s keys. thanks a lot

By: hugh

hugh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:39:38 +0000

It worked fine for me.
This Emac was given to me, and I needed the admin PW to update. It wasn’t available, so this is great.

By: hannah

hannah — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:26:50 +0000

ur AWESOME……. tnx a bunch

By: gem

gem — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:58:23 +0000

great it helped me too

By: loti

loti — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:57:32 +0000

good one…. it worked fine.. tnx

By: maddison

maddison — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:36:50 +0000

does this actually work without messing up my apple mac? cause its actually my dads apple mac that he bought off a friend a couple of weeks ago and it was his girlfriends computer but she didnt tell us the password so we cant install anything onto it. just wondering that if i done this would it work as its my dads laptop and i will get into ALOT of trouble if i broke it or messed it up.
write back thanks x

By: tom

tom — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:12:50 +0000

Rez

Thanks MAN, you really helped me!
only dscl . -passwd didn’t work for me but you certainly got me in the right direction: I had to do
dscl . -delete /Users/username AuthenticationAuthority

Note: Replace “username” with the affected user account’s short name you noted above.
Press Return
Type this, followed by Return: passwd username
reboot
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1543

By: cheef

cheef — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:11:09 +0000

ive got a ibookg4 with mac 0sx i cant use the cd dvd drive due to the admin pass word when i restart using this article it restarts and alls it does it sends me to a screen where i have to enter a pass word i can get past that using a password but to change anything i have to have a password for the admin what do i do?

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:26:47 +0000

Tried the above and got the new user setup wizard on reboot. After entering all the new details I receive an internal server error and standard user not setup any help would be appreciated. Thanks Andy

By: woww

woww — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:37:13 +0000

hold down the alt key after you hear the mac’s start up sound. then choose the disk you want to boot from. good luck:))

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:34:04 +0000

i cant seem to get it to work for me

ive done it before but i got another one and i did it, now it jus goes through it and at the last question i click and it says creating account but then it restarts the thing. and i try it again, and it goes through the reboot again.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:57:00 +0000

OMG THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH it worked amazingly BTW you know when it worked after you type exit a shit load of words n crap fly through the screen its like your starting up again go with the flow DO NOT TRANSFER i was hesitant at first just gotta have faith. after its quite simple System pref accounts n there it is your old account unlock it change its password delete the new account and your done! =D i have macbook 10.5.7 and macbook pro runnin leo worked for both

By: rikee

rikee — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:27:22 +0000

Worked excellent even remotely on a PC guy…that is proof of working :-). Thanks