Forgot admin password

[newcoyote]

Common question I know. What do you do if you've forgotten your admin account password? I have access to my user account but when I want to change something in the system preference settings (i.e. change a screen lock duration) and it asks for my password I am dumbfounded. This is the password asked for when you click on the padlock icon. I used the same password for years but have not happened to need in there for about half a year so I am utterly blank. Old age.
iMac 2012 OSX 10.12.6

 

[jbarley]

checkout the first post in this link...
https://www.google.ca/search?source...4.psy-ab..0.30.1912...0j0i131k1.0.HyXx7kfAn6Q

if that did not help then try this link...
http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/25/change-admin-password-mac/

 

[newcoyote]

checkout the first post in this link...
https://www.google.ca/search?source...4.psy-ab..0.30.1912...0j0i131k1.0.HyXx7kfAn6Q

if that did not help then try this link...
http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/25/change-admin-password-mac/

Thank you for the help. I managed to figure it out. It was in my head, after all, just buried under a big dusty pile of junk.
It took some meditating and a couple of hours relaxing at the local duck pond but I finally realised what I'd done. Cognative load is maxed out.

 

[Fishrrman]

If you're old (like I am)... perhaps it's time to start writing down passwords in a "little black book"...

 

[OldGreyGuy]

If you're old (like I am)... perhaps it's time to start writing down passwords in a "little black book"...

If you are old (like us) then you have to worry about where I put that "little black book."