Select the volume and account and reset the password.Ī third way is to create a new admin account:.Run resetpassword, which opens the Reset Password application.Run passwd username and reset the password.Ī second way to reset the login password of an account is to use Reset Password.app from the recovery partition:.Or in 10.6 and earlier: launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ In 10.7 and later, run: launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/