HT201250: Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac
Learn about Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac
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Aug 19, 2016 8:27 PM in response to Sweetnbrownkat007by Loner T,Please see Change or reset the password of an OS X user account - Apple Support .
If you can boot into Local Recovery - Command+R - About OS X Recovery - Apple Support - and in Utilities -> Terminal, enter resetpassword command.
If none of these methods work, you can boot in single-user mode - OS X El Capitan: Start up in single-user mode and use Terminal commands to reset the password.