SweetMacTips — I’m having a dilemma. You see, when my Mac was purchased it was booted up without me and I don’t know if they(my dad) set up a password. How do I change my password without knowing it?

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I'm having a dilemma. You see, when my Mac was purchased it was booted up without me and I don't know if they(my dad) set up a password. How do I change my password without knowing it?

joulo asked

Boot it from the OS Install disc. Under the Utilities menu there’s a password reset tool. See Apple’s site. It applies to 10.6 as well.

Posted on Friday, July 29 2011. Tagged with: mac password reset

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