I don't know what my administrator password is for my mac, help!?

Question

Is there anyway I can reset my administrator password? I have an old white mac. I don't know the name or whatever it's just a white mac with a webcam haha. It's a few years old. Anyway, I foolishly can't remember my password and don't know how to reset it. It says "insert the Mac OS X install media" but I don't know what that is nor do I have it. I'd like to avoid having to go to the apple store to have them reset it or whatever. Any ideas?

Answer 1

hack your admin rights by shutting down your computer and pressing command + S while starting up then you will get a black page with white text on it at the buttom of the page type these commands hitting the enter key after each one of them

Mount -uw /

rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

shutdown -h now

then you will be able to make a new admin account make sure you put a password on it otherwise it won't be an admin account then you can reset the password of your old account

Answer 2

Administrator Password Mac

Answer 3

I heard from a security blog that a charger can help you remember your password because it'll have the password hint in it. I'm not sure if it applies to yours, but it's worth a shot.

Answer 4

Try this...try hitting enter without typing anything

If that doesn't work try: admin

If that doesn't work type 4 zeros 0000