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 ...

More than four years ago, Alicia Katz Pollock wrote “Five Ways to Reset a Lost Administrator Password” (17 January 2014), and through the vagaries of Google’s search algorithm, it remains our most ...

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 ...

This tutorial will teach you how to reset your admin password in Mac without Apple ID. If you forgot your Apple ID, there is a way to recover your admin password and unblock the computer using the ...

Apple today released Security Update 2017-001 to fix a serious vulnerability that enables access to the root superuser account with a blank password on any Mac running macOS High Sierra version ...

Granting access to the System Administrator account allows users free reign to the macOS desktop, including the ability to view all files stored on the computer in all user accounts, edit the ...