Complete Guide to Reset Your Password On Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Without Installation DVD

There may be some time, you want or need to change you Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. If you have forgotten the administrator password on your Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and have no other administrative access, you can use the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Installation DVD to reset you password, but there may some time you may not have an installation DVD and don't have administrative access to the Mac OS X10.6 to reset an account's password in these cases, this guide will tell you how to reset password on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard without installation DVD.

How to Reset Password On Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Without Installation DVD

Step 1:

Restart your Mac OS X 10.6, then hold Command and S keys down during start-up
Step 2:

Enter the following command options, and either of them will work, when the command prompt shows

Command 1:
passwd USERNAME

Command 2;
dscl . -passwd /Users/USERNAME

In the commands above, USERNAME is the short name of the account, this is usually the name of the user's home folder, so at this same command prompt you can list the home folders on the system by running the following command:
ls /Users
Step 3:

Restart the Mac OS X 10.6 by entering "reboot" at command prompt, when a new password has been set for the account.

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