Computer won't accept my administrator name and password

Try repairing disk permissions. Launch Disk Utility. Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility.

Restart your MacBook and try to update your software.






Carolyn 🙂

HI,

Try resetting your Keychain Password.

You can change the password for your keychain at any time. However, if you want your default keychain to be unlocked automatically when you log in, make sure your keychain password is the same as your Mac OS X login password for your account.

If your Mac OS X login password is not the same as your default keychain password, you’ll be asked for the password whenever an application needs access to your keychain and your keychain is locked.

To change your keychain password:

Open Keychain Access, located in the Utilites folder in the Applications folder.

Open Keychain Access

Choose Edit > “Change Password for Keychain ( keychain name).”

If the keychain is locked, type the password to unlock it and click OK.

Type the current password for this keychain.

Type a new password, and then type it again to verify.

For help choosing a secure password, click the key button to the right of the Password field.

Click OK.






Carolyn 🙂

That's the way it's stated in the Apple Help menu...

Try Edit/Change password for keychain login.

This is probably not your problem, but it might help someone else searching this thread. Watch what keyboard you have left active on your computer. In the German keyboard "y" and "z" switch places. I've been locked out of my computer for the simple reason that I inadvertently left it on the German keyboard.

Sounds like a system wide auth failure, been there, and it aint fun :/

Have you tried logging in to your admin account via terminal and then ussing the passwd command to change the pass ? If that doesnt wok,

See if this helps any: http://theappleblog.com/2008/06/22/reset-os-x-password-without-an-os-x-cd/

Let us know how it goes.

- vasilios

Your Keychain login password must be the same as your admin password ... are they?

Changing your keychain password
You can change the password for your keychain at any time. However, *if you want your default keychain to be unlocked automatically when you log in, make sure your keychain password is the same as your Mac OS X login password for your account.*

If your Mac OS X login password is not the same as your default keychain password, you’ll be asked for the password whenever an application needs access to your keychain and your keychain is locked.

To change your keychain password:

Open Keychain Access, located in the Utilites folder in the Applications folder.

Open Keychain Access

Choose Edit > “Change Password for Keychain ( keychain name).”

If the keychain is locked, type the password to unlock it and click OK.

Type the current password for this keychain.

Type a new password, and then type it again to verify.

For help choosing a secure password, click the key button to the right of the Password field.

Click OK.

And try here if you haven't... http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1631

and here: http://www.tech-faq.com/reset-mac-os-x-keychain-password.shtml





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Message was edited by: Carolyn Samit