Hi, my 11 year old son just told me yesterday that he forgot his password on his imac. i don't know why he would have one, but he for got and now i need a way to get it back with out restoring the mac. i heard there is a prompt in terminal to get the password and possibly change it. does anyone know what this procedure would be?
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Mac OS X: Changing or resetting an account password
Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD
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