How do I log in to administrator account of a macbook?
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admin 26 May, 2010
My uncle passed away a little more than a year ago, no one has touched his Macbook since. Now unfortunately we have to log in and we don’t know the password, is there any way to log in?
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Yes, you can reset the password by booting into single-user mode:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080414140636495
We needed to reset the password on a Leopard system, but we didn’t have the OS X install DVD available. After a few minutes of playing around, I came up with this solution:
Boot into single user mode (press Command-S at power on)
Type fsck -fy
Type mount -uw /
Type launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist
Type dscl . -passwd /Users/username password, replacing username with the targeted user and password with the desired password.
Reboot
This allows you to reset the password in single user mode without booting from the install media