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My 94 yr old Dad forgot his screensaver pw

and we just updated it to High Sierra, restarted the Mac mini and now he can't get past the screensaver....HELP please.

Thanks.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.3.7)

Posted on Dec 13, 2017 4:10 PM

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Posted on Dec 13, 2017 9:51 PM

Boot into Recovery mode by holding Cmd + R when you power on the machine.

Once it boots to the recovery menu, on the toolbar, go to Utilities > Terminal. In Terminal, type

resetpassword

This should allow you to reset the password to that page.

Best of luck!

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