EDIT: Holy shit! I just remembered the password! Thanks for all the responses, I'm bookmarking this page for the next time!

Not sure if this is the best sub for this question, if not let me know where I might inquire.

I was hoping to get some files (old photos, mostly) off my 2006 MacBook Pro A1151. I haven't touched it in many years. It starts up fine, but... I've forgotten the password I set for it :(

What's the best way to get what I need from the disk? Can I use 'target disc mode'? I'd rather not remove the HD, but if I did, would it be locked?

TIA for any advice or help!

I forgot the password to my Macbook running Macos Monterey,

Looked up a guide on the internet, and it told me to just turn on recovery mode, go to the terminal, type in "reset password," and it'll work.
I did what it said, and surprisingly it worked, without any additional verification whatsoever. I checked that find-my was on in the settings, and the Apple ID was also logged in. Everything was left the same as before I shut down the computer.

This was very scary to know, making it seem that any person with knowledge of this trick would be able to gain access to any macOS computer. Am I doing/understanding anything wrong here?

Edit: fyi the computer was a 2016 MacBook Pro intel, without Touch Bar

This is a version from 2010-2011

As the title says , I forgot my password. I entered into recovery mode, and then decided to try logging in using the settings option. It asked me for a code on my phone and I ended up here, how can I reset my password now and log in as I usually would?

Hey!
So I have a MacBook Pro 2015 and somehow I have forgotten my password.

The thing is, it was linked to my Time Machine and that had a file of photos I would LOVE to get!

Tried the Apple ID way to reset but is coming up with an network error.

Any advise or help would be great!

Hello. My dad had an old Mac all in one. Cira 2010 maybe.

He has a bunch of old photos on it he wants to recover but does not remember the password.

Is there any way to recover these photos or doing some sort of recovery thing?

When I try to reset it is not giving an option to connect to my wifi . It is locked

Hi everyone.

I'm trying to list different ways to reset a user password on macOS.

Here are the ways i know for now:

• use a password hint

• use apple ID

• with another admin account

• with a key if filevault is enabled

• with recovery mode > in Terminal with reset password command

Then, i wonder if there is any other ways to do it by booting from another macOs instance.

• In Target Disk mode and access to disk from another computer?

• Booting from another disk and access to the partition where the user is located?

I'm looking for legal ways, not interested in hacking or anything. Maybe it's not possible.

Thanks for your advices and help!

Regards.

N.

This picture is from a non-admin login profile. I can’t for the life of me figure out the password for the admin profile. I feel like I would’ve made it something simple, but I guess not. How good was the password security in 2015? Will it look me out if I guess wrong too many times?

So I was forgot my MacBook password yesterday, then I saw this page! (just open terminal on recovery mode and type "resetpassword") and I successfully reset my password and login without losing data at all.

I was happy at that moment, but I though that would be so scary if somehow my Mac is stolen and the thief can easily reset my password and see my personal data, that's a nightmare.

Do you know how to prevent reset password on Mac?

Hi, I’m trying to research information and help our enterprise IT support staff to solve an issue with my MacBook’s forgotten login password. Our local business unit has very small fleet of Macs and local IT support is quite inexperienced solving Mac related issues.

Some context:

• The device is Apple Silicon (M1) MacBook Pro with latest macOS installed.

• I device has two local user accounts, one for the main user (= me) and one for IT admin staff. Both accounts have local admin privileges.

• The device is managed with Jamf.

• I’ve been able to reset my MS Active Directory password to login other enterprise IT services but it doesn’t sync automatically to Mac. In our setup, we use a software called NoMAD to sync the local Mac password to AD.

• I have typed wrong login password too many times resulting my user user account become locked. First the account got locked for certain time period (e.g., 3 hours) but now macOS just says “account is locked.” If I boot the Mac in recovery mode and try to login it says “account is locked temporarily.”

• The login screen doesn’t offer options for password reset e.g. with Apple ID (maybe because of device management policy).

• Our local IT support doesn’t have the recovery key for the device.

My questions:

1. How long the “temporary lock” will last? How do I know when it has ended and am I able to try to login again then?

2. Is there some Jamf command that can be used to unlock the user account (I remember seeing something like this in another thread)? If yes, could the command be issued remotely when the device is connected to Internet on my home network or does the device need to be (wired) in the office network?

3. Is it possible that IT logins with their account and resets my user account’s password? If yes, can the password be resetted while the user account is locked and does it need to be unlocked first? Is the reset done in macOS System Settings > Users & Groups, command line or with Jamf?

4. Are there any other options to reset the password?

I’d be very happy for any information that I could pass to our IT support to get access back go my Mac. Thanks for the help!