Forgot password to open Mac

[420benz]

I tried entering the same password 4 times but i get no opinion to change it.
Is there another way ?

 

[DeltaMac]

Do you want to change your account password?
1. Boot to your recovery system.
2. Open terminal, from the Utilities menu.
3. Type resetpassword, press enter.
4. Follow the steps to change the password for your user account.
4a. Reboot, login using your new password
5. (optional) Don't forget your new password (just sayin')
(edit) This doesn't apply after Catalina - there's other protections in place on newer systems.

 

[Mike Boreham]

Do you want to change your account password?
1. Boot to your recovery system.
2. Open terminal, from the Utilities menu.
3. Type resetpassword, press enter.
4. Follow the steps to change the password for your user account.
4a. Reboot, login using your new password
5. (optional) Don't forget your new password (just sayin')

Can you boot to Recovery without knowing the User password? (Away from my mac at present so can't check....also might be different for M1/T2 macs)

If so and it is this easy to reset the user password, it seems like a security flaw?

 

[kitKAC]

I tried entering the same password 4 times but i get no opinion to change it.
Is there another way ?

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202860

 

[kitKAC]

Can you boot to Recovery without knowing the User password? (Away from my mac at present so can't check....also might be different for M1/T2 macs)

If so and it is this easy to reset the user password, it seems like a security flaw?

There are various protections in place, check out the support page.

 

[DeltaMac]

If you are trying to get the "Change forgotten password", and that choice does not appear after 3 wrong password tries, you want to make sure you are actually on the account login screen: Force a shutoff by holding the power button for 5 seconds or so, then press and release the power button to boot again.

 

[420benz]

If you are trying to get the "Change forgotten password", and that choice does not appear after 3 wrong password tries, you want to make sure you are actually on the account login screen: Force a shutoff by holding the power button for 5 seconds or so, then press and release the power button to boot again.

I did that and got the same Enter Password option.I don’t know how to boot to recovery mode.

 

[DeltaMac]

You won't get the choice for changing password, until you try a wrong login 3 times.
More here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202860

This will show you how to boot to your recovery partition (If you still want to do that)

How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support

You can use macOS Recovery, your computer's built-in recovery system, to reinstall the Mac operating system. Reinstalling macOS doesn't remove your personal data.

support.apple.com

 

[420benz]

I did change the password but now it is locked and i don’t know the password to unlock it

 

[420benz]

This is where i am now and i don’t know the password

 

[DeltaMac]

OK, that's not your account password. It's asking for the FileVault passkey to unlock the drive.
Nothing to do with your account.

 

[DeltaMac]

If you don't remember your FileVault unlock password, so you can't unlock the drive, that basically means that you have to erase the drive, reinstall your system, restore from your backup.
There is no way in to your now-encrypted drive without that passsword. There's no choice to change it, without turning FileVault off, and you need the unlock password to turn FileVault off.
You do have a backup, don't you?

 

[420benz]

So i did a restart and put in my new password and this came up

 

[420benz]

I don’t know

 

[DeltaMac]

Yes...
If you can't unlock your encrypted drive, then your account is effectively locked.

What happened with your Mac since you were last able to login? Did you just update to Monterey?

"I don't know". What is that answering? That you don't know if you have a backup??
Tell me what you know about that backup...

 

[420benz]

I just got this Mac and i did setup a password to open it. Last night the power went off and so did the computer.I entered the password i setup but it did not work.

 

[Apple_Robert]

If I am not mistaken, when setting up FileVault, the admin is given the option to use the Apple ID password to recover the drive. If you didn’t tick that box when turning on FV, Delta is correct. You will have to erase the drive and restore from backup, if you have one. If you don’t, all the information on the drive is lost forever and you will need to start over.

 

[420benz]

OK My Bad So how do i do this [start over]?

 

[DeltaMac]

I agree. Be sure to try your AppleID password, as that could unlock your MBPro, and get you going again.

 

[DeltaMac]

Here's how you can "start over": https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211873

 

[420benz]

I agree. Be sure to try your AppleID password, as that could unlock your MBPro, and get you going again.

My MBP is not the problem its my desktop

 

[circatee]

Since it sounds like you have just received/started using this unit, I would restore to factory, "start over", as Delta stated...

 

[circatee]

My MBP is not the problem its my desktop

...despite the physical hardware, same rules apply.

 

[420benz]

If i click on Macintosh it brings me back to this. If i click on the gearit asks for a password

 

[420benz]

I would like to start over but nothing works.I am ready to throw this thing out the window