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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...

1. OS X: Changing or resetting an account password (Snow Leopard ...

   support.apple.com/kb/ht1274

   Learn how to change or reset an account password in OS X, including the original ... Mac OS X. If the original administrator password is known, that administrator ...

2. How to reset admin password iMac: Apple Support Communities

   discussions.apple.com › Desktop Computers › iMac (Intel) › Discussions

   May 10, 2013 - Mac OS X 10.6- If you forget your administrator password ... dialog window that will appear. Or see Reset a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Password and.

3. Enabling and using the "root" user in Mac OS X - Support - Apple

   support.apple.com/kb/ht1528

   After completing a task as the root user, you should log out of Mac OS X and log ... an administrator account can become the root user or reset the root password.

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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