Forgot Your Account Password

Sep 24, 2018  If the password field shows a question mark, click it to display a password hint that might help you to remember. Try to log in without a password. If that works, you can then add a password by following the steps to change your password. Try to log in. May 28, 2017  How to reset your Mac password if you forgot it without losing any data! 2019 Samvit Agarwal. How to reset the password on Macbook Air and Pro (all Models) easy method 2018 - Duration. If the password hint doesn't show up, that will be because it wasn't set to show password hints in the Login Options. Unfortunately, the only way to change this setting is to log into your Mac.

For Snow Leopard and earlier

For Lion/Mountain Lion

Boot to the Recovery HD:

Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.

When the menubar appears select Terminal from the Utilities menu.

Forgot My Macbook Pro Password

Enter resetpassword at the prompt and press RETURN. Follow

instructions in the dialog window that will appear.

Or see Reset a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Password and

OS X Lion- Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.

Forgot Administrator Name And Password Macbook Pro

Bypass Administrator Password Macbook Pro

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