5 Easy steps to change Password on MAC

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Being a human, sometime we forgot the passwords. If you forgot your password on MAC Just cool. You can easily retreive your password.
For this purpose you need to follow the 5 steps written below:

1. Start (boot) your computer in single user mode. For this, press CTRL+S when the power ON.

2. Check your file system consistency with the command:
fsck -fy

3. Now, mount root file system by the command:
mount -uw /

4. Load com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist with the command:
launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist

5. Use the utility “dscl” to reset your password
dscl . -passwd /Users/username password
Here just change username and password to your new username and required new password.

Restart your computer.

In the above 5 steps no boot or recovery disk required.

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