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1. #RESET MAC PASSWORD WITH APPLE ID INSTALL#
2. #RESET MAC PASSWORD WITH APPLE ID PASSWORD#

#RESET MAC PASSWORD WITH APPLE ID PASSWORD#

One caveat, though: If you reset your password this way, you won’t be able to access your Keychain, which holds information like your network passwords and Apple Mail account logins. To continue, click the arrow on that notification box and type in your Apple ID to reset your forgotten data. Funnily enough, Apple claims you’ll need to enter an incorrect password three times. Once there, attempt to enter your password a few times, and eventually you’ll get a dialog box that will ask you if you’d like to use your Apple ID to reset your password.

With Lion, all you’ll need to do is to go to the login window (choose Apple Menu > Log Out if your machine is set to automatically log you in). Now let’s assume for a moment that you’ve lost your account password. After you’ve done that, you’ll be allowed to toggle the “Allow user to reset password using Apple ID” checkbox on. You still remember that for now, right? Then choose your account from the list on the left and click the “Set” button to assign an Apple ID to that account.

First, you’ll need to click the lock in the lower-left corner and type in your administrator password to make changes. To begin, open System Preferences and choose Users & Groups (formerly the Accounts pane, which has been given a new moniker for Lion).

Here’s how you can take advantage of this fancy option (you have to set it up before you forget your password, obviously, so read on!). For a lot of users, those options were pretty yucky.

#RESET MAC PASSWORD WITH APPLE ID INSTALL#

If you only had one admin account on your machine in Snow Leopard, the solution was to boot off of the install disk and use a utility to set things right, or you could boot into single-user mode and change the password from the command line. One of my favorite new features in Lion is the ability to reset a forgotten account password using your Apple ID.