macOS Support Essentials 10.15 - Apple Pro Training Series: Supporting and Troubleshooting macOS Catalina

Lesson 10. Manage Password Changes

Goals

• Change known passwords

• Reset lost user passwords

A password change is different from a password reset. You can change a password if you know it, but if you don’t know it, you might be able to reset it. Changing and resetting passwords both result in a new password, but you should reset a password only if a user doesn’t know their password.

In this lesson, you learn how to change and reset passwords. You also learn about the ramifications of modifying passwords.

Reference 10.1 Change Known Passwords

If you know your local computer account password but want to change it, you can do so from the General pane of Security & Privacy preferences, or you can select your user account in Users & Groups ...