

The easy solution is to restart the Mac, log in with the admin account whose password you do know, and carry on from there. The only problem with this method is if the locked-out account is logged in, you can’t modify it. Enter the new password, verify it, and (optionally) include a password hint.(If necessary, click the lock at the bottom of the window and provide your admin credentials.) Select the locked account in the list at the left.Open System Preferences > Users & Groups.If that’s true, you can log into that account and change the password for the locked account: The best-case scenario is that there is another admin account on the Mac for which the password is available. Reset the Password from Another Admin Account As before, you can accomplish this task in a variety of ways, depending on how the Mac in question was set up and what information you know. Unfortunately, that article is long past its shelf life, so here’s a current guide to resetting an admin password in macOS 10.13 High Sierra. Apparently, lots of people forget their macOS passwords or need to help friends or clients who have lost their passwords. More than four years ago, Alicia Katz Pollock wrote “ Five Ways to Reset a Lost Administrator Password” (17 January 2014), and through the vagaries of Google’s search algorithm, it remains our most popular article to this day. #1607: TidBITS 32nd anniversary, moving from 1Password to KeePass, pasting plain text, Mail fixes anchor links, RIP Eolake.
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