{"id":226,"date":"2012-11-13T02:40:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T02:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2019-02-07T04:40:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T04:40:12","slug":"reset-the-user-password-in-lion-and-mountain-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Reset the user password in Lion and Mountain Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>&#160;<\/h4>\n<p>Some of you ask for change the user password in 10.7 or 10.8, because the button was deleted.<\/p>\n<p>With Mac OS X Snow Leopard and older Mac OS, the installer disc allows you to change the user password pressing Utilities &gt; Password Reset. In Lion, it was deleted, but you can change it with easy steps. There are two ways to reset the user password in OS X Lion and Mountain Lion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In the system<\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you boot in your system, you can change the password. It&#8217;s used to change it if you didn&#8217;t forget it.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Boot your Mac and open <strong>System Preferences &gt; Users and Groups<\/strong> <\/li>\n<li>You can see the users. Press the user what you want to change the password and select Change password. You will be asked for your password<strong>        <br \/><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In Recovery<\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you forgot the password and you can&#8217;t use OS X, you have to use the new Recovery.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To boot in Recovery system, press <strong>Command and R keys<\/strong> in boot and hold the keys until you see the Apple icon. If you have a Mac with Internet Recovery, read &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4718\">http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4718<\/a>. If your Mac has got a wireless keyboard, hold them when you hear the startup sound <\/li>\n<li>When it starts, select Utilities &gt; Terminal, and type: <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote>\n<p>resetpassword<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Press your user and type your password. Finally, reboot.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t work for FileVault. If you forget your password with FileVault, you lost your info. Also, you can see if you use Recovery HD or Internet Recovery, or enable it -&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4904\">http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4904<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can do it with an USB drive &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4848\">http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4848<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Some of you ask for change the user password in 10.7 or 10.8, because the button was deleted. With Mac OS X Snow Leopard and older Mac OS, the installer disc allows you to change the user password pressing Utilities &gt; Password Reset. In Lion, it was deleted, but you can change it with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}