Scroll down to skip the 3 Security Questions and click on Use a Password Disk instead option.Ħ. On the next screen, click on Reset Password option.ĥ. You will see “Password is incorrect, Try again” message, click on OK to move to the next screen.Ĥ. Go to the Login screen and click on the Right-Arrow.ģ. Insert the USB Drive containing Password Reset Disk into the USB port of your computer.Ģ. You can use this method to recover your forgotten User Account Password, only if you had previously created a Password Reset Disk.ġ. Reset Local User Password Using Password Reset Disk Answer your Security Questions > Enter a New Password and Sign-in as usual by entering the New Password. On the next screen, click on Reset Password option.Ĥ. You will see “Password is incorrect, Try again” message, click on OK to move to the next screen.ģ. Go to the Login screen on your computer and click on the Right-Arrow.Ģ. If you had answered Security Questions while creating User Account, Windows 10 allows you to recover Password by answering security questions.ġ. Reset Local User Account Password by Answering Security Questions You can now login to this User Account using the New Password. On Change Password screen, type New Password, confirm New password, type Password Hint and click on Change Password button. When done correctly you will see “dsenableroot:: ***Successfully disabled root user.6. This will ask for a user name and password of an admin user. Sudo mv /users/marketing /users/administrator/Desktop/OldUserFiles/ Sudo mv /users/jdoe2 /users/administrator/Desktop/OldUserFiles/ Sudo mv /users/jdoe1 /users/administrator/Desktop/OldUserFiles/ Sudo mv /users/Guest /users/administrator/Desktop/OldUserFiles/ Mkdir /users/administrator/Desktop/OldUserFiles/ This is important if you don’t really know what people were storing. Now we will move, not delete, all of the previous user files into a directory we can easily access should we need them later. OPTIONAL: Force the startup video to play again for the first login Next we want to remove the users, note this will only remove the user access and not the files for that user. When done correctly you will see “dsenableroot:: ***Successfully enabled root user.” This will ask for a user name and password of an admin user then ask to create a root password and have you confirm it. In this document I use the user name “administrator” as the account that I do the work in and would like to keep, your user name may be different. Recently I had to remove users from a Mac that was on a network only with SSH available.

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