How to remove all passwords on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Question

I have bought a MacBook Pro, and I'm having problems with those passwords.

How can I disable them completely?

Answer 1

There are two methods according to OS X Daily.

_{I don't have a 10.7 machine to try but I would assume they work fine.}

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Plain password reset

Reboot your Mac and hold the Option key. Wait for the menu and select "Recovery". Here, wait until you see the Mac OS X Utilities dialog. At the top, select Utilities → Terminal.

Here, type in the following and press Enter afterwards.

resetpassword

This is pretty straightforward.

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Making the Mac forget it's been set up

Do the same as above, where you boot into the Recovery disk. Select Utilities → Terminal again. Then, enter the following:

rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

After that, enter

reboot

Your Mac will now think it's been freshly unpacked. You can create a new administrator account through the steps here. For example, call it "temp". Once you're done with the setup, you can log into your new account.

Then, open System Preferences → Users and Groups. Click the lock to authenticate. From the user list on the left side, click the account you didn't know the password of. Here, click "Reset Password".

Once you're done, you can log out from your "temp" user, and log into the other user again.

You can even remove the "temp" user by going to Users and Groups preferences from the original user account and deleting it from there.