How To Reset Administrator Username And Password On Mac

An administrator can reset the passwords of other users. On your Mac, choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click Users & Groups. If the lock at the bottom left is locked, click it to unlock the preference pane. Select a user, then click Reset Password. I have a Macbook air 10.9.4. I want to reset it to the factory settings. I do not know the admin password though. I tried doing to holding down command and R thing, but all that happened was a grey screen came up with a picture of a lock, and a block for a password to be entered in, but I don't have a password. Install mac usb.

1. Default Mac Administrator Password
2. How To Change Password On Mac
3. Factory Reset Mac Without Password

1. To remove an admin user account from your Mac, you'll follow these simple steps: 1) Launch the System Preferences app and open the Users & Groups preferences pane. 2) Click on the Lock button at the bottom of the preferences pane to unlock the settings within.
2. Click on the padlock in the bottom-left corner of the window. You will have to enter the username and password of that user again. Select the user you want to reset the password for, then click Reset Password. Fill in the necessary fields and hit Enter.

'I forgot Windows 7 password on my Mac laptop, and there is only one user account which is the administrator. How I can get into Windows? Is there any way to reset lost Windows password from the Mac side with Boot Camp Assistant?'

With Boot Camp Assistant you can install Windows on your Mac computer, which allows you to dual-boot your machine between OS X and Windows. However, the files stored on your Windows OS cannot be accessed from within Mac OS. So if you forgot the admin password of the Windows system running on your Mac machine, you'll lose access to your Windows files.

PCUnlocker is a bootable utility which can reset forgotten Windows password on any PC or Mac, which supports booting in EFI/UEFI and Legacy/CSM BIOS mode. In this tutorial we'll walk you through resetting lost admin / user passwords for Windows running on a Mac.

1Create A PCUnlocker Live CD on Mac

First of all, you need to log in to your Mac OS X and make a PCUnlocker Live CD. Of course this can also done using a Windows PC. ISO2Disc is a Windows app which allows you to create a EFI/GPT bootable CD or USB drive from PCUnlocker ISO image.

1. Click here to download and save the PCUnlocker program on your Mac OS X. The downloaded file is a self-extracting zip archive which contains a WinPE-based ISO image called pcunlocker.iso.
2. Double-click on the .zip file you have downloaded, Archive Utility should appear and automatically extract your files. Once the files have been extracted, you can find the pcunlocker.iso file in a folder located in the same location as the original .zip file.
3. Insert a blank CD into your computer's optical drive.
4. Open Finder and navigate to Applications ->Utilities and double-click Disk Utility.
5. Once the Disk Utility is launched, click the Burn button at the top of Disk Utility in the toolbar.
6. Choose the pcunlocker.iso file from the pop up window. Click on Burn and confirm your operation. Sit back and wait while your new disc gets written!

2Reset Windows Password from Mac

1. Just shut down your Mac, then turn it back on. When you hear the Mac startup Chime, press and hold the 'Option/Alt' key. You'll be shown all the bootable drives on your Mac, including your CD drive or USB stick.
2. Use the keyboard arrows to choose the CD/DVD-ROM, then press the Enter key. The computer will start up from PCUnlocker Live CD.
3. Once the WinPE operating system inside the CD is loaded into memory, the PCUnlocker application will start. It displays a list of local user accounts that are detected from your Windows SAM database.
4. Choose your administrator account and click on Reset Password button. It will reset your forgotten Windows admin password immediately.
5. Click Restart to reboot your Mac and remove the CD. You can then log in to your Windows administrator account without a password. Done!

It's so easy to reset lost admin password for Windows running inside your Mac. If you need to reset the password for a Windows virtual machine running in VMware Fusion or Parallels on your Mac, just mount the PCUnlocker ISO image to the virtual CD drive and you can reset the password as well.

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The user account named 'root' is a superuser with read and write privileges to more areas of the system, including files in other macOS user accounts. The root user is disabled by default. If you can log in to your Mac with an administrator account, you can enable the root user, then log in as the root user to complete your task.

The root user account is not intended for routine use. Its privileges allow changes to files that are required by your Mac. To undo such changes, you might need to reinstall your system software. You should disable the root user after completing your task.

It's safer to use the sudo command in Terminal instead of enabling the root user. To learn about sudo, open the Terminal app and enter man sudo.

Enable or disable the root user

1. Choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Users & Groups (or Accounts).
   
2. Click , then enter an administrator name and password.
3. Click Login Options.
4. Click Join (or Edit).
5. Click Open Directory Utility.
6. Click in the Directory Utility window, then enter an administrator name and password.
7. From the menu bar in Directory Utility:
   • Choose Edit > Enable Root User, then enter the password that you want to use for the root user.
   • Or choose Edit > Disable Root User.

Log in as the root user

When the root user is enabled, you have the privileges of the root user only while logged in as the root user.

Default Mac Administrator Password

1. Choose Apple menu > Log Out to log out of your current user account.
2. At the login window, log in with the user name 'root' and the password you created for the root user.
   If the login window is a list of users, click Other, then log in.

How To Change Password On Mac

Remember to disable the root user after completing your task.

Change the root password

Factory Reset Mac Without Password

1. Choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Users & Groups (or Accounts).
2. Click , then enter an administrator name and password.
3. Click Login Options.
4. Click Join (or Edit).
5. Click Open Directory Utility.
6. Click in the Directory Utility window, then enter an administrator name and password.
7. From the menu bar in Directory Utility, choose Edit > Change Root Password…
8. Enter a root password when prompted.