How To Reset Apple Mac Macbook Password?

Losing and forgetting passwords is a common global past time!

Every computer user around the world has forgotten his or her password at least a few times, be it the password of their email account or the password for the computer itself.

Here in this ‘how to’ we are going to focus on the way to reset the Apple Mac/MacBook password.

Sometimes people forget their admin account password, and if this happens to you, there is nothing to worry about.

Let us consider the scenario where we assume that you haven’t locked the OpenFirmware. If that is the case, then it is a very simple task to reset the admin password for Apple Mac/MacBook.

Here is the procedure:

Boot the Apple Mac/MacBook in a single user mode and hold Apple+S when the system is booting.
On the shell enter this line: #sh /etc/rc.
Enter the following command: #passwd.
Reboot the system by entering the following command: #reboot.

There are times when users might even forget their username. In this case he or she can look in the /Users folder and search for the directories named by username, or execute "niutil -list . /users" on the shell.

If you have an older Apple Mac/MacBook system, the /etc/rc script isn’t available. In that case, if the 2nd step fails, you can try to mount and start the base services manually using the following commands:

#/sbin/fsck –y
#/sbin/mount -uw /
#/sbin/SystemStarter

The thing to keep in mind is that once this method is adopted, all the passwords that are stored in your keychain will be lost. In a way that is not bad, because if you have lost your administrator password or your account password, the passwords on your keychain aren’t of much importance.