The nice thing about past versions of OS X was that you could establish your own admin password during the set up process when you first installed OS X, but OS X Yosemite no longer does that and it ...

Apple requests an admin username and password whenever you send a machine in for repair. For obvious reasons, I'm uncomfortable with that, and a search shows I'm not alone. My preferred solution is to ...

This article is over four years old and some details have changed. For up-to-date help, read “Three Ways to Reset a Lost Admin Password in High Sierra” (5 July 2018). Several years ago, I was helping ...

The need to reset or recover your admin password for your account can happen for a variety of reasons – we were once in this position when we messed around with settings on our Mac and then forgot the ...