Difficulties resetting admin…
Password. The first and second options listed in the instructions do not appear. Such as reset using Apple ids
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Reset Admin Password…
Use the Recovery Partition — Starting with 10.7 Lion, which was sold only through the Mac App Store, the installer disc was replaced by the Recovery partition, a small chunk of the boot disk that contains a stripped-down version of Mac OS X and essential utilities. To reset the administrator password when running Lion or later:
- Restart the Mac while holding down the Option key, and double-click the icon for the Recovery partition. A Mac OS X Utilities screen appears.
- Choose Utilities > Terminal.
- In Terminal, type resetpassword. Rather unusually for a task performed from the command line, a graphical Reset Password window appears.
- Select the startup volume at the top of the window, and then choose a user account from the pop-up menu. In the fields below, enter the new password, confirm it, and add an appropriate hint.
- Click Save, and then choose Restart from the Apple menu.