Forgot Admin account / Root (System Administrator) Password on Mac OS X? Let’s say you totally forgot Root (System Administrator) or an Admin account password to log on to your Mac. Or maybe you purchased a used Mac from someone else and they’ve got it locked down. How would you use this Mac now?You will need to reset its admin account password. There are numerous ways to reset admin or root password with no OS X discs.You don’t need to worry to get the recovery disk to reset the password.Normally we reset the admin password using terminal command “Resetpassword” in recovery mode which is available on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and above but OS X 10.6.7 or below does not have recovery partition so we need an OS X installation Disk to get the terminal outside of the Installed OS X to reset the Apple OS X root or admin password.

Even if you’re running OS X 10.7 and above before moving forward. The information in this post is presented with the intention to help people with legitimate reasons for resetting their Mac OS X password.

Some users want or have to change their user password. Although this was an easy process in Mac OS X Snow Leopard and older, there are a few things you have to know if you want to do it in any OS X version later than Lion (10.7).

A few of the methods floating around the Mac community have been compiled here in one easy-to-reference place. System admins responsible for supporting entire organizations and users who bought used Macs are the folks most likely to benefit from this.Using this article you can reset Mac OS X Root password or any of the Admins account password and then you can login with admin or Root account(System Administrator) to reset password for any of the other accounts. If you are running macOS Sierra or above then read the new post on Steps to reset the Admin password in OS X 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.7, 10.6, 10.5, 10.4 A.  Video card for mac pro early 2009. Reset Root or admin password in OS X 10.7 – 10.11: Starting with 10.7 Lion, which was sold only through the Mac App Store, the installer disc was replaced by the Recovery partition, a small chunk of the boot disk that contains a stripped-down version of Mac OS X and essential utilities. The passwords for all accounts on OSX 10.7 and above, including admin and standard user accounts can be reset and changed when booted from the Recovery Partition on OS X: 1.

Boot into Recovery Partition to Reset Root/Admin Password Using Terminal Reboot into the Recovery Drive by holding down the ‘command’ + ‘r’ keys on the keyboard during the start up process when you see the start up screen (Gray Screen with Apple Logo) you can let go off the keys. When the machine boots eventually you will see the OS X Utilities screen. Recovery Mode-Reset Root or admin password on Mac OS X Go to the Utilities menu and select Terminal. Reset Root or admin password on Mac OS X-Using terminal At the prompt type ‘resetpassword’ and hit Enter/Return Key.

This launches a new Reset Password screen at the back,Click on the newly opened Window where you can select the Volume Hard Drive, containing the user account.select the Volume Hard Drive in the top part of the window pane, then select the user account from drop down list and then type the New password for this account and confirm the password by typing again, then click save to change the password for selected user. Select the Volume hard drive containing the user Account Select the Admin Account or Root to reset its Password Note: Do not click on the Reset button at the bottom because that is used to reset permissions and access control lists of all the files and folder in selected user’s home directory.If you by mistake click on that its gonna take a long time to repair the permissions. What if the Reset Password Window does not show any hard drive Volume? Reset Root or admin password on Mac OS X when the FileVault is turned On Now if you come to this Reset Password window and you don’t see any hard drive icon then how would you reset the password? Reset Root or admin password on Mac OS X When FileVault is Turned On This is most likely the result of FileVault encryption which is turned on.The drive is locked using FileVault encryption and cannot be accessed until you unlock the drive. This may be set to a master password you created or any of your old passwords.