To reset a Mac admin account password, log in to a second administrator account and launch System Preferences > Users & Groups. In the lower-left corner, select the lock icon and enter your administrator password. Next, select the admin account whose password you want to change > Reset Password > Change Password.
Every Windows device comes with a built-in local administrator account that you must secure and protect to mitigate any Pass-the-Hash (PtH) and lateral traversal attacks. Many customers have been using our standalone, on-premises Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) product for local administrator password management of their domain joined Windows machines. With Microsoft Entra ID support for Windows LAPS, we're providing a consistent experience for both Microsoft Entra joined and Microsoft Entra hybrid joined devices.
LAPS is available to all customers with Microsoft Entra ID Free or higher licenses. Other related features like administrative units, custom roles, Conditional Access, and Intune have other licensing requirements.
Other than the built-in Microsoft Entra roles of Cloud Device Administrator, Intune Administrator, and Global Administrator that are granted device.LocalCredentials.Read.All, you can use Microsoft Entra custom roles or administrative units to authorize local administrator password recovery. For example,
Custom roles must be assigned the microsoft.directory/deviceLocalCredentials/password/read permission to authorize local administrator password recovery. You can create a custom role and grant permissions using the Microsoft Entra admin center, Microsoft Graph API or PowerShell. Once you have created the custom role, you can assign it to users.
You can also create a Microsoft Entra ID administrative unit, add devices, and assign the Cloud Device Administrator role scoped to the administrative unit to authorize local administrator password recovery.
You can also use Microsoft Graph API Get deviceLocalCredentialInfo to recover local administrative password. If you use the Microsoft Graph API, the password returned is in Base64 encoded value that you need to decode before using it.
To list all Windows LAPS enabled devices, you can browse to Identity > Devices > Overview > Local administrator password recovery or use the Microsoft Graph API.
To view audit events, you can browse to Identity > Devices > Overview > Audit logs, then use the Activity filter and search for Update device local administrator password or Recover device local administrator password to view the audit events.
Conditional Access policies can be scoped to the built-in roles like Cloud Device Administrator, Intune Administrator, and Global Administrator to protect access to recover local administrator passwords. You can find an example of a policy that requires multifactor authentication in the article, Common Conditional Access policy: Require MFA for administrators.
Because Windows LAPS can only manage one local admin account on a device at a time, the original account is no longer managed by LAPS policy. If policy has the device back up that account, the new account is backed up and details about the previous account are no longer available from within the Intune admin center or from the Directory that is specified to store the account information.
On some computers, the account will not be named "Administrator" because the owner or administrator either changed that name or added administrative accounts with different usernames. In either case, you will need to know which of the accounts in the list is the designated Administrator account.
You can also change the administrator password using the "User Accounts" control in the Control Panel. Some people may prefer this method to the universal steps above. Follow the instructions below for your situation and operating system.
These instructions are for changing passwords for accounts residing directly on your computer, not for Active Directory passwords. This holds true even if your Active Directory account is an administrator on the computer.
I'm a secretary and my boss set up my new Windows 7 OptiPlex 7010 (Dell) computer for me while I was on vacation (he does not remember setting any "administrator" password). We are a small office so there is no system password set, either.
I tried the Dell suggested solution, but the BIOS tells me there is no password set, so it has to be a Windows 7 problem. All the solutions I have come across require an administrator password to let me do them.
7.TA DA!You just reset your Windows 7/8 password. Close the CMD window and log on with the aforementioned set "net user" Name and password.If you want to restore your "Sticky Keys" app, return to step one and walk through the process again and use this command in step 2: "copy /y d:\sethc.exe d:\windows\system32\sethc.exe" IN REPLACE OF "copy /y d:\windows\system32\cmd.exe d:\windows\system32\sethc.exe"
There is a tool called Offline NT Password & Registry Editor.
I have used it several times and would highly recommend it.
Below is a link to an easy to follow tutorial with screenshots that should be able to help you remove the administrator password.
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Good luck!
For the second part you need an account which can elevate its right to administrator. This is not the same as with older (e.g. 10+ years old XP). These days and account runs as a normal user. Some account (e.g. the default user created during installation and the default disabled account named administrator) have these rights. But those elevated rights are not 'on' by default.
An administrator is someone who can make changes on a computer that will affect other users of the computer. Administrators can change security settings, install software and hardware, access all files on the computer, and make changes to other user accounts. To log on as an administrator, you need to have a user account on the computer with an Administrator account type.
Open User Accounts by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking User Accounts, clicking User Accounts, and then clicking Manage User Accounts . If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
Your user name is highlighted and your account type is shown in the Group column.
If your account type is not Administrator, then you cannot log on as an administrator unless you know the user name password for another account on the computer that is an administrator. If you are not an administrator, you can ask an administrator to change your account type.
I've had similar problems , i can not access my Windows password because i forgot Windows 7 password .
But for Windows 7 user , the NT password reset tool is free and effective , we can use it to solve this problem ,
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I used iSeepassword Windows password recovery too create a boot USB and reset my password on windows 7. So, if you forgot the Windows password, you can easily reset windows password with iSeePassword, it's easy to use.
To reset the Splunk to use default credential (admin/changeme), you would need to login to your windows 7 machine, using local administrator account. Then go to SplunkInstallDir->etc. You should see a file called passwd. Keep a backup of this file and then delete it. (this file contains all the credentials/users, which you may required to restore if you have created additional users). Then restart the splunk. This should allow you to log in using admin/changeme credentials.
at this point you can connect to your server as postgres user using a local connection without the need to enter a password (omitting the -h parameter when calling the psql command will use a local connection - if you pass -h then this will match the line host all all 0.0.0.0/0 in your pg_hba.conf file)
Basically, you copy over cmd.exe on top of the sethc.exe (Sticky Keys) using the boot disk. Then you can execute "sticky keys" which actually opens the command prompt where you can change the local admin password.
I always use Windows Password Resetter to do stuff like this. It works well enough to blank the Adminstrator password (allowing you to reset it on next login). The bootable Live CD can usually see most drives I deal with (provided I am using real, bona-fide hardware RAID).
@haraldk, the basic idea is to distribute the OpenSSL binaries in a consistent location across your clients. Create an OpenSSL key pair, securing half the pair, while distributing the other half to all your clients. Then when you encrypt a bit of data, say a password, with the secured half of the key pair, then your clients will be able to decrypt the secure value. Here is an excerpt of a prior thread that has some basics. Try it out and post if you get stuck.
If you have another admin account (orthere is another user with an admin account that can log in), you can use thataccount to reset your password. This can be done through the Control Panel. Goto Change account type, choose the account you would like to reset thepassword for, type in the new password, and click on Change password.
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