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I need help with my Mac desktop and change the installer password
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I need help with my Mac desktop and change the installer password
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Do you need to 'reset the Admin user password' to gain access to the computer?
If so the method may vary among various Mac OS X systems, so it may help to
know what computer and OS X you have...
OS X: Changing or resetting an account password (Snow Leopard ...
How to reset admin password iMac: Apple Support Communities
Enabling and using the "root" user in Mac OS X - Support - Apple
Here's a few ideas taken from a google ^ of the topic;
if you search Apple Support database, even more.
And then there's this...
•Reset the user password in OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks: ASC...
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4101
{If you have a newer Mac with no optical drive, and no boot disc DVD, but it has a Recovery partition, you may be able to boot into OS X Utilities in there and choose to reset the admin or account passwords. I haven't used that, so am not familiar.}
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
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