How to reset a login password
Reader Ed Grotewahl would like to do a good deed for a family member, yet finds the path to doing so obscured. He writes.
My daughter has forgotten her login password. I know in the past you could reset the password by booting from the OS X installation disc and using a Reset Password command but now that there are no such installation discs I don’t know how that works under Mountain Lion.
Fortunately this feature is still available but not in the obvious way it once was. Do this:
Restart the Mac and hold down Command-R to boot into Mountain Lion’s Recovery HD partition. From the menu choose Utilities > Terminal, and in Terminal type resetpassword and press Return. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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