How To Reset Password For Mac Pc

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by Jenefey AaronUpdated on 2019-07-25 / Update for OS X

What are you supposed to do if you’ve forgotten or lost your Mac password? Or can’t remember your Apple ID password when you attempted to login into your Mac ? Don’t panic, you still have a few other ways to reset and recover lost password on Macby resetting its password with the help of third-party software, please read on.

1. John the Ripper: Tool for Mac password cracking

  • Change password from another account. In the event that you happen to share your Mac with another person, and they have their own account, you can use their Login to reset your password. Or, if you have a different account on the Mac that you know the password to, you can recover your Mac admin password by following these steps.
  • Use Recovery Mode to reset your password You'll need to boot your Mac into Recovery Mode in order to access the password reset tool. I've found the easiest way to do that is to turn off your Mac.
  • Aug 10, 2010 From the Mac login or boot screen, enter any wrong password three times to summon the “Password Hint” box and a message saying “If you forgot your password you can reset it using your Apple ID” click on that arrow icon to start the Apple ID based reset.

Aug 07, 2012 In an 'out of the box' wild idea, I had the user shut down the Mac, I reset their password in AD again, then had them log into a PC workstation and update the AD password that way. When they logged back into the Mac, hey presto! Everything now works! Not conventional, but, what the heck. Thanks again for the reply. Or, if you have a different account on the Mac that you know the password to, you can recover your Mac admin password by following these steps: Click on the Apple logo in the top left of the tools bar and click Log Out. Select the alternative account and enter the password. Open System Preferences Users & Groups.

John The Ripper is perhaps the best known password cracking (hacking) tools out there, and that’s why it will always be in our ‘concise top ten hacking tools’ category. Aside from having the best possible name, it works and is highly effective. John The Ripper is a part of the Rapid7 family of hacking tools. There are two versions you can choose from, the free version and the commercial “PRO” version.The commercial version optimized for performance and speed. For the average user, John The Ripper ‘open-source’ will work great, for the real hard-core user we’d certainly recommend the Pro Version.

Features of John The Ripper:

  • It is a fast password cracker
  • John The Ripper runs on various platforms 11,like Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS, Mac OS
  • The actual usage procedure is quite easy
  • It provides a free version

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2. THC Hydra : Multiple services supportive, Network authentication Mac PasswordCracker

THC Hydra, or simply ‘Hydra’, is another very popular and supper fast network password hacking tool. It can be used to crack passwords of different protocols including HTTPS, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, Cisco, CVS, SQL, SMTP etc. It will give you option that you may supply a dictionary file that contains list of possible passwords. It’s best when we use it in Linux environment.

Features of THC Hydra

  • Fast cracking speed
  • Available for Windows, Linux ,Solaris and OS X
  • New modules can be added easily to enhance features
  • Supportive with Brute force and dictionary attacks

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3.Medusa : Speedy MacPassword Cracking Tool

Medusa is remote systems password cracking tool just like THC Hydra but its stability, and fast login ability prefer him over THC Hydra.

It is speedy brute force, parallel and modular tool. Software can perform Brute force attack against multiple users, hosts, and passwords. It supports many protocols including AFP, HTTP, CVS, IMAP, FTP, SSH, SQL, POP3, Telnet and VNC etc.

Medusa is thread-based tool, this feature prevent unnecessarily duplicate of information. All modules available as an independent .mod file, so no modification is required to extend the list that supports services for brute forcing attack.

Features of Medusa

  • Available for Windows, SunOS, BSD, and Mac OS X
  • Capable of performing Thread based parallel testing
  • Good feature of Flexible user input
  • Due to parallel processing speed of cracking is very fast

For Mac users, you can easily crack the forgotten password with 3 Mac password reset software mentioned above. For Windows user, we will recommend you the best free Windows password recovery program—Windows Password Recovery Tool. It is designed to recover, or reset lost user and administrator passwords on Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista.

Lost or forgot Mac admin password and no installer disc? Here are 3 effective ways to easily reset Mac admin password without disk.

Even you have lost access to Mac, the built-in password recovery utility and terminal will always help you to sign in Mac after Mac admin password reset.

Way 1: Reset Mac admin password with another administrator

While you have another available administrator on Mac, please take this easy and safe way to reset your Mac password.

1. Power on Mac and login with another administrator.

For example, if you want to reset mac password for admin account 'isunshare fox', now please select another administrator 'deger' to sign in Mac.

2. Open System PreferencesUsers & Groups and remove the lock on editing with administrator password.

3. Select the admin account in user list, and click on Reset Password button next to the account.

4. Type a new password for selected account and reenter it to verify. Click Change Password and the Mac admin password would be reset or removed if you don't type any password for administrator account.

5. Restart Mac with admin account you just reset password to make new password effective.

Way 2: Reset Mac admin forgotten password with Apple ID

Before using Apple ID to reset forgotten Mac admin account password, it is necessary to make sure you have linked your admin account to Apple ID on accessible Mac.

Steps to reset Mac forgotten admin password with Apple ID: Nebula for mac.

1. Power on Mac and select the password-forgotten admin account to sign in.

2. Just type incorrect password, press Enter and you would get the message about you can reset password using your Apple ID. Click the icon after that.

3. Enter Apple ID and its password. And tap on Reset Password to continue.

Note: If you forgot apple id password, please reset it at first on login page through email or security questions you have set.

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4. Click OK while another message prompts you will create a new keychain if you change the password for this user.

5. Type a new password twice for admin account and click on Reset Password button to make Mac admin password reset successfully with Apple ID.

6. Access Mac with new admin password and then you could create new keychain.

Simple steps to associate admin account to Apple ID on Mac:

1. Open System PreferencesUsers & Groups and right click the password-forgotten admin account. Choose Advanced Options. Or you can directly see Apple ID option under the user account. (Take Yosemite as example)

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2. On Advanced Options window, click Set button next to the Apple ID option to add Apple ID.

3. Write down the existing Apple ID you want to associated with or create one now by Create Apple ID option if you have no Apple ID. Click OK and again to make sure the connection between user account and Apple ID.

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4. Return to the admin account in Users & Groups. Now please check 'Allow user to reset password using Apple ID'. Then you could reset admin password with this Apple ID on Mac login screen whenever you want.

Way 3: Reset Mac admin password with password recovery utility

It will guide you how to reset Mac admin password with built-in password reset tool on Mac. And it always works even though you have no another administrator or have not associated admin account to Apple ID.

1. Start Mac and press Command + R when grey screen appears and hold on it until you see Apple logo.

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2. Wait for Mac entering recovery mode.

3. While you access Mac in recovery mode, click Utilities on the top menu and select Terminal.

4. Type resetpassword in Terminal and press Enter. Please keep terminal open.

5. On following Reset Password utility, choose a user you want to reset password. And click Next.

  • If the account is not associated with Apple ID, you will be able to directly reset a new password for account on Mac.
  • If it has been linked to Apple ID, you will have to input Apple ID password firstly and then could reset Mac user password.

After Mac user password reset, reboot Mac to make password recovery effective.

Note: If you still want to reset password for another user in recovery mode, please type 'resetpassword' again in Terminal and all of users will be listed again for you to choose and reset password.

Besides above easy and safe ways, Terminal also helps you to reset Mac admin password with command line in single user mode, but it seems a little difficult and is not recommended. Surely if you think you can do it, please try. But if you cannot do it in proper way, probably your Mac would be damaged by something wrong.

  • 1. Reboot Mac and enter single user mode by holding down Command + S.
  • 2. Check filesystem errors and fix them on Mac with command: fsck -fy
  • 3. Mount the root macOS drive as writable and allow changes to filesystem: mount -uw /
  • 4. Reset mac user password with command line: passwd username
  • 5. Enter the new password for user you type and reboot Mac.

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Note:

1. If you cannot make sure the user name, please check it with command 'ls /Users' at first in Terminal.

2. And it is an extra step for Mac running OS X 10.7.3 and later. Load Open Directory with following command before running password reset command line.

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launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.opendirectoryd.plist


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