Password Help Please
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I think you can use the original install disk. But that is only if you don't have FireVault activated.
This might help: Mac OS X: Changing or resetting an account password
And yes, Apple can retrieve your password at an Apple Store. Sometimes even the mac person at best buy can do it.
This might help: Mac OS X: Changing or resetting an account password
And yes, Apple can retrieve your password at an Apple Store. Sometimes even the mac person at best buy can do it.
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The ONLY way these could have been changed is by the following two methods:
1. You renamed your home folder
2. Someone with physical access to your machine AND knowledge of all your passwords changed them
I'm not sure what you mean by "Master Password," but if you're referring to Filevault, YOU'RE SCREWED. This is why I spend so much time warning people off Filevault.
If you're not referring to Filevault and are instead referring to your admin password that you use to log into your account, then you can change that yourself:
Mac OS X: Changing or resetting an account password
(scroll down to "Resetting the Original Administrator Account Password")
1. You renamed your home folder
2. Someone with physical access to your machine AND knowledge of all your passwords changed them
I'm not sure what you mean by "Master Password," but if you're referring to Filevault, YOU'RE SCREWED. This is why I spend so much time warning people off Filevault.
If you're not referring to Filevault and are instead referring to your admin password that you use to log into your account, then you can change that yourself:
Mac OS X: Changing or resetting an account password
(scroll down to "Resetting the Original Administrator Account Password")
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Well, not screwed. You'll just need to go out and get a new 2.5inch laptop drive and use a fresh install of OS X. The computer hardware is still fine though.
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what is firevault?
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chas_m
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It's called Filevault, and you don't wanna know.
Oh, all right, I'll tell you: it's an Apple security option that encrypts the entire home folder.
This REALLY slows things down, and if you forget/can't use your Master Password, that's it -- your entire home folder and all your stuff is irretrievably gone. It's a really bad idea for anyone short of perhaps a CIA director.
Much better option for those people who have "sensitive" material on their machines: an encrypted sparse disk image for JUST that material.
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^^^ worked like a charm!
I made a bootable rescue USB thumbdrive (per MacLife's How To Handbook magazine Spring 2010) and I couldn't log in with it. Booted with the original OSX disk, clicked on the change password option, selected USB thumbdrive, changed the password and now I'm in like flint!!!
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^^^ worked like a charm!
I made a bootable rescue USB thumbdrive (per MacLife's How To Handbook magazine Spring 2010) and I couldn't log in with it. Booted with the original OSX disk, clicked on the change password option, selected USB thumbdrive, changed the password and now I'm in like flint!!!
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