How to bypass the sign in on my new mac

Recently used migration assistant to transfer files from old to new. When finished tried to turn on my new mac and it asked for password to sign in. On my old mac I didn't use a password to sign in, now I need to bypass the sign in so I can turn it on. I need to know how to bypass the sign in.

iMac, OS X 10.11

Posted on Jun 19, 2019 10:01 AM

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Jun 19, 2019 10:05 AM in response to brucefrompennington

Are you saying you do not know the password? You have to sign in at least *once*.

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