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A handy tip if you lose your password.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can reset either an
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administrator password or user password
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in OS 10 so uh in the past it was really
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difficult to reset an administrator
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password if you'd forgot it in OS 10
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because if you were missing your install
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dis you had to go through this weird
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process with the command line and a
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whole bunch of stuff and even if you had
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the install dis you had to you know find
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it get it out boot off of it but now
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with OS 10 lion it's much easier to
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reset your OS 10 master password so I'm
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going to show you how to do that today
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so this process does require uh at least
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Mac OS 10 lion when Mountain Li comes
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out this will also work with it so as
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you might know OS 10 includes a recovery
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HD so basically it's a separate
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partition on your hard drive that OS 10
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automatically creates when it installs
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and it gives you all the utilities that
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you normally find on an OS install dis
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but it combines them right in your hard
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drive so in case something would go
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wrong you can boot right off of there
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instead so with that being said the
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first step you're going to need to do is
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restart your computer so when you
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restart your computer as soon as you
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hear the Apple chime you're going to
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want to hold down the option key and
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that's important so that you get to your
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startup menu where you can choose what
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drive you want to start up from so at
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this point you should see this screen
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here where you can choose which drive
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you want to start up from and since I
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have M line and line inst you see a lot
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of discs but but what I'm going to want
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to do is go over to the dis that says
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recovery HD and hit enter to start up
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right from there so at this point you
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should see this menu here where you can
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choose a variety of different things
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that You' want to do with your computer
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but we're not going to worry about any
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of these we're going to go to the menu
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bar instead up in the utilities menu you
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want to select terminal and from there
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it'll launch terminal for you in
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terminal you're going to want to enter
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the reset password command which is just
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reset password as one word and then you
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can hit enter
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so from here you'll see a window that
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lets you select the volume containing
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the user account that you want to reset
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the password on and in my case I have
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two different drives here but I'm going
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to select Macintosh HD and then the user
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account below which is Michael steber so
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not only can I select from any user
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account I can also select the system
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administrator root too and then from
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there I can just enter a new password
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for the account and confirm it and enter
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a password hand once you have everything
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filled out it's as easy as just clicking
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the save button you'll see a little box
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that says login password reset and you
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can hit okay and you're all done from
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here it's just as easy as quitting OS 10
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utilities and then going back over when
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it prompts you to choose the startup dis
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and from there choosing the hard drive
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you use with your computer hitting
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restart and waiting for it to restart
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once your computer rest started it's as
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easy as just logging in with your new
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credentials and you should all be ready
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to go uh that's as easy is as it is to
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reset your OS 10 password in lion or
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above M lion also works with the same
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principle
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so if you have anything that you'd like
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to see me make a howto video on whether
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it be on OS 10 or iOS make sure to send
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me an email that's about all this is
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Michael with CAC and thank you for
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watching
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