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Recent admin password via Recovery mode

  • Hold during boot cmd+R
  • Click on the top left scheen on the 'Utilities' menu and then on 'Terminal'
  • When Terminal is open typ 'resetpassword' and press enter

Reset your admin password using Single-user mode

  • Hold during boot cmd+S
  • Type 'mount -uw /' and press enter
  • Type 'launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.opendirectoryd.plist' and hit enter
  • After this you can reset any username with 'passwd username'

If you dont know the username check the /Users folder

  • ls /Users
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