You’ll receive a notification on your Apple devices. (In older versions you might need to enter some text to prove you’re not a robot – if you can’t read the text, just keep clicking until you can.) You will have to confirm enter the trusted phone number that is associated with your account, then press continue. Enter the email address you use with your Apple ID and click continue (if you can’t remember which email address you use, we tackle that. Otherwise, you may have to answer some security questions and provide a 14-character Recovery Key (which we discuss below).Ī and click ‘Forgotten your Apple ID or password?’ Assuming you have two-factor authentication set up (rather than two-step verification) the process outlined in the steps below should work. The steps below will depend on the type of security you set up for your Apple account. How to reset an Apple ID passwordĪssuming you can’t just think really hard until you remember what the password is, your best bet is to reset it. root command prompt in this case normally would display #.But the good news is that over the years Apple has simplified this process and, as long as you have set up two factor authentication, changing your Apple ID password should be very simple. To run these commands, first su to an account that allows them to run eg. Normally the command prompt displays $ and sudo commands may not run it won't even accept the Admin or root passwords. The sudo commands can also be run when logged in to an Admin account, after entering su or su root in Terminal. 
When done, you may log back into your Admin account and Disable Root User. The sudo commands should work from this account. Log out of your current account, and log into the root account via username: root Then from Edit menu -> Enable Root User, then enter some password.
It can also be accessed via Menu bar: Apple -> System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Options -> Join - > Open Directory Utility. Mine was located at /System/Library/CoreServices.
If you are able to log in to an Admin account to your iMac, access Directory Utility and 'click the lock to make changes'. You'll just get an error that password is incorrect, even if you enter your current Admin password. Sudo passwd root command will NOT work unless Root User is enabled. "Change Root Password" is only available if Root User is enabled.
0 kommentar(er)
