Click the lock in the corner of the window, then enter your administrator password to unlock the. That's it, that's all.įWIW, if you don't have access to an admin account I think you can still reset the root password using the installation CD, but I haven't tried that yet. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Date & Time. I enter the new password, quit the Terminal application, and I'm done. Then it asks me (twice) what I want the new root password to be. The system first prompts me for the admin account password (i.e., Fred's password), which I enter. Then I typed this command into the Terminal: (If the Terminal icon is not on your Dock, click Applications on the Dock, select the Utilities folder, then click Terminal.) (For instance, if the account name was 'Fred', I logged in as the user Fred.) Mac sudo command - changing the root passwordįirst, I logged into my Mac system using that admin account. Well, that, a Terminal, and the sudo command.
I was lucky enough that I created one of my login accounts as an administrator ('Admin') account, and that's all I needed. (duh) Fortunately I found an easy way to change it after I lost it. So secure that I managed to forget the root password after I changed it. Wow, I thought I'd get really secure when I took my MacBook Pro on vacation recently.