How to change my password?

How to change the password for macbook?

• hello guys, Me and my BF used to live together, but now we are living separately. he changed the password for my macbook. My macbook is still login as administration. i need to change the password in order to use it in future. i tried to look at internet and got some information. i dont have master password or disc. i have no clue :( most of people are saying this .. You can try this: Creating a new Admin on Mac Os X: Here's how to reset your OS X password without an OS X CD. the Working solution for me was to create a new admin you can create new admin like this by deleting a specific file. You need to enter terminal and create a new admin account: 1. Reboot 2. Hold apple key + s key down after you hear the chime. (command + s on newer Macs) 3. When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line): mount -uw / rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone shutdown -h now 4. After rebooting you should have a brand new admin account. When you login as the new admin you can simply delete the old one and your good to go again! I dont have master password either :( do i need to restart it to ad a new administration account? or there is any other way to change it without the OS disc. i have no idea about it because my Bf used to do everything for me. please help me to reset it. it is out of warranty though.

• Answer:

  I will ignore your list of others' suggestions. Some of it is nearly fine, but it is less trouble for me to give you the correct steps than to sift through all that. You can't change the password of the logged in account without knowing the current password. That's to prevent some jerk from changing your password while you are in the other room getting a beer. You have three or four choices: * METHOD 1: Boot to the OS X install DVD, go past the language selection, go to the Utilities menu, and open "Password Reset Utility". If you don't have one, go to the next option, but remember: you will need it one day, and when that day comes, you will be much more frustrated than you are now. * METHOD 2: Open System Preferences > Accounts. If there is a closed lock icon at the bottom left of this small window, go to the next option. If not, click the + sign, enter "test" for the name, "test" for the short name, "test" for the password, "test" for the hint, and put a check / tick for "Allow user to administer this computer". Click the "Create Account" button. Quit System Preferences, agree to turn off automatic login, logout, login as "test". Open System Preferences > Accounts. Select your old account, click the - sign, and agree to delete it. If it asks you to choose how, select to save it as a disk image (OS 10.4.11 and older did not offer a choice; save was the only process). All your old account files will be in: /Users /Deleted Users /youroldaccount * METHOD 3: If you are using OS 10.5 or later: {{The next two options involve typing UNIX commands. The typing is critical, so copy these commands, paste into a text document, increase the font size, and print. Where you see a space, you must type a space, Where you see no space... 'nuff said.}} Restart holding ⌘ (Command) and the S key during startup. Type: mount -uw / Press Return. Type: launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.… Press Return Type: ls /Users Press Return. Look at the listing and note the short name (username) of the affected user account. Type: dscl . -delete /Users/username AuthenticationAuthority {Note: Replace "username" with the affected user account's short name you noted above.} Press Return Type: passwd username Press Return {Note: Replace "username" with the affected user account's short name you noted above.} At the "New password:" prompt, type the user's password. {Note: It is recommended that the original user's password be used to match the keychain password.} Press Return. At the "Retype new password" prompt, type the same password. Press Return. Type: reboot Press Return. * METHOD 4: Restart holding ⌘ and the S key for 30 seconds. Type: /sbin/mount -uw / Press Return. {Nothing appears to happen, no problem.} Type: rm /var/db/.applesetupdone Press Return. Type: reboot Press Return. {Now stuff appears to happen.} You will finally get past the "Welcome" in a dozen languages and then you can create a new admin user. It should be a different short name from your old user. A few screens later, you come to the registration. Just choose "later". It doesn't come back later to nag.