Can I reset the password on my computer without knowing my old password

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Can I reset the password on my computer without knowing my old password

I purchased my fiancé a used mac book pro one bay for christmas last year. He uses it for recreation so I never installed any type of software that required a password. Recently he needed adobe flash player for for and we went to install it and it wanted a password for the computer and we had no clue what It could be. I referenced the email with all the info from the person I bought the computer and they said the password was reset to "password" that didn't work. So we have no clue what it could be and I can't make a new password without knowing the old one.. I've guessed everything we both use as passwords and nothing has worked. Can anyone help...

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Apr 24, 2015 7:55 PM

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Kappy

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Apr 24, 2015 7:57 PM in response to shelxo

Forgot Your Account Password

For Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks

Boot to the Recovery HD:

Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.

When the menubar appears select Terminal from the Utilities menu.

Enter resetpassword at the prompt and press RETURN. Follow

instructions in the dialog window that will appear.

Or see:

Reset a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Password

OS X Mountain Lion- Reset a login password,

OS X Mavericks- Solve password problems,

OS X Lion- Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.

For Snow Leopard and earlier with installer DVD

Mac OS X 10.6- If you forget your administrator password,

OS X- Changing or resetting an account password (Snow Leopard and earlier).

For Snow Leopard and earlier without installer DVD