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Reset Admin Password

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T0501st

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jan 21, 2013
2
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St. Louis
Hi,
I forgot my admin password. Not the one to my account but the one to the system. I was wondering if there was some way to reset it without knowing the old password and without losing all the data. Thanks
 
ZMacintosh

ZMacintosh

macrumors 65816
Nov 13, 2008
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684
Not your admin account? the system/root password?

it also depends on the OS X version your using.
if its Lion or newer the recovery partition allows you to reset the password.
Or using the DVDs that came with your system
 
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