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Article by Amit Chawla

Forgetting or loosing a user password for Macintosh OS X

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You can replace the password by following the steps below.

Reboot the MAC Computer, while booting up hold down the “open apple” and “s” keys, if successful, A command prompt will appear.

1. Type “/sbin/mount -wu” (This command allows you to access the files on the Mac Computer).
2. Type “/sbin/SystemStarter” (This command starts the services on the Mac Computer).
3. Type “passwd user“, user is the username on which the password you wish to be changed.
4. Type “shutdown -r now” (This command will reboot the Mac Computer).

You should be able to log in to the user with the changed password, if it was successful