{"id":520,"date":"2014-08-18T16:47:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=520"},"modified":"2014-08-18T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:47:28","slug":"how-to-reset-an-os-x-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-reset-an-os-x-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reset an OS X Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You first need to boot your Mac into single user mode by booting it up while holding down the &#8220;command+s&#8221; keys.<\/p>\n<p>Once your in Single User Mode type in<\/p>\n<pre>mount -uw \/<\/pre>\n<p>That will mount your Mac hard drive. Now run<\/p>\n<pre>launchctl load \/System\/Library\/LaunchDaemons\/com.apple.opendirectoryd.plist<\/pre>\n<p>and now you can change the password.\u00a0 Replace &#8220;username&#8221; and &#8220;password&#8221; with the username for the user and the new password.<\/p>\n<pre>dscl . passwd \/Users\/username password<\/pre>\n<p>Now you can reboot the machine<\/p>\n<pre>reboot<\/pre>\n<p>and log in with the new password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You first need to boot your Mac into single user mode by booting it up while holding down the &#8220;command+s&#8221; keys. Once your in Single User Mode type in mount -uw \/ That will mount your Mac hard drive. Now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-reset-an-os-x-password\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[165,274,167,152,168],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-os-x","tag-apple","tag-os-x","tag-reset-os-x-password","tag-reset-password","tag-single-user-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}