Comments on: Change the Password in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Without Knowing the Current Password

By: jv

jv — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:23:07 +0000

I got “Permission Denied. Please enter user’s old password:”

Any advice or other ways to change or reset password. I have OS X 10.7.5. Thanks.

By: maddy

maddy — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:07:36 +0000

i’ve tried it and it didn’t work. after i input the new password, it said invalid and ” DS Error: -14009 (eDSUnknownNodeName)” what should i do?

By: vickie

vickie — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:52:59 +0000

hey i tried doing this but when it asks me for the new password it wont allow me to type it and i even tried copy and pasting but it wont let me do you have any suggestions?

By: barcelona10

barcelona10 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:10:14 +0000

Does this still work? I am getting invalid path after putting in the new password.

By: repet

repet — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:50:32 +0000

anytime you type a password at the command line you can’t see it, that’s how every command line password prompt works.

By: khryztyne16

khryztyne16 — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:45:55 +0000

i can’t see what I’m typing and when i enter new password it says invalid…

By: Marcus Woodard

Marcus Woodard — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:07:09 +0000

everytime i try to type the new password nothing happens,please help

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:02:10 +0000

You won’t see a password entered, it’s a typical security measure in unix. Enter the password and hit return and confirm it and hit return again, you will never see a password entered into the terminal.

By: Mevi Hariyanti

Mevi Hariyanti — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:04:50 +0000

dear sirs,

I have tried as your advice:

Last login: Tue May 15 19:50:43 on ttys000
Mevis-MacBook-Air:~ mevihariyanti$ whoami
mevihariyanti
Mevis-MacBook-Air:~ mevihariyanti$ dscl localhost -passwd /Search/Users/mevihariyanti
New Password:

but when I try to type new password it is freezing, So I couldn’t type anything on it.
Please help

By: itsroads

itsroads — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:45:10 +0000

N/M I’m stupid. Now it says, ‘Permission denied. Please enter user’s old password:’ What am I doing wrong?

By: itsroads

itsroads — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:39:04 +0000

When I’m in the TERMINAL, I do everything right. So when it brings me to ‘New Password:’ and then it says ‘Invalid Path’. What does that mean?

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:05:30 +0000

Thank you so much for replying so quickly to my post!

So are you saying that when I keyed in the “new password” it was my current password that I forgot? Not possible. But it doesn’t matter. I did find the following link which worked for me. Yes I did have to reboot from the Recovery HD, but it was easy. What annoys me now is that if it’s this easy to change an Admin password…what’s the point of having one …other than to have different settings, etc from other users in the house; but now I know it doesn’t protect me from anyone stealing my MAC and getting to my data.

Thanks again …here is the link for anyone who who is struggling with forgotten admin passwords.

http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:23:53 +0000

That means you need to enter your old password or use an Admin account

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:20:57 +0000

Help. This did not work for me. After entering my new password, it responded with:

Permission denied. Please enter user’s old password:

By: Cody

Cody — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:40:41 +0000

whoops, the sentence after the And… was supposed to be…
dscl localhost -passwd /Search/Users/Cody
sorry for the mistake!