You need to boot your Mac into Recovery HD mode, and then use the Reset Password utility to reset your log-in password. Shutdown your Mac, and press the ability button. As soon as you heard the startup chime, hold down the choice key. pictures of over one boot volume can show up. Use the arrow keys to pick out Recovery HD. When boot up in Recovery HD completes, you'll be able to notice the Reset Password utility within the menu commands. Or primarily, we've to delete the keychains located within the account in question. Now, it's commonly said that so as to edit keychains, you have got to try to to it through the Keychain Access utility within the account in question. however that is not possible since you cannot even login. Well, we'll want another account with admin privileges. There are innumerable ways that to form one even supposing you cannot access your solely account. simply Google it, it's everywhere. So, we tend to got our second account with admin privileges. In theory, you'll be able to access the initial account's Library folder and then the Keychains folder and delete all files inside. Such folders are protected and that we want permission to access them. Fortunately, we tend to are admin. Basically, we are able to right click the folders, Get Info, and provides ourselves permission. however we will not try this, either. In Lion, the Library folders, together with those in different Users, are hidden. we will not right click one thing we will not see. thus we'll ought to use the Terminal. Open it and run
Code:
sudo cd Users/(name of user) /Library
Where (name of user) is your original account. currently the Finder pops up with, miraculously, the Library folder selected, and after all, visible. Right click and provides yourself permission to browse & Write. Enter the folder. currently seek for the Keychains folder. Do identical (right click and acquire permission for it). Now, within the Keychains folder, delete the files in it. i believe it's enough to merely delete the login.keychain file.. or simply move it away. you ought to currently be able to log in to your original account. likelihood is that that the keychain can want you to re-enter passwords you used before etc... however that is straightforward enough
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