It is very easy for me to reset the Password for an account in Windows as I have a passrord reset CD that I just drop into the optical drive and then boot it. After digging around macOS, I discovered that it can be done on macOS just as long as a firmware password isn’t set and you can see a demonstration below.
00:00 – macOS Login
00:15 – Restart macOS to Recovery
01:00 – Accessing Recovery partition.
04:10 – Recovery partition
04:25 – Terminal
04:40 – Type in ‘resetpassword’ and press enter/return.
05:35 – Restart macOS to macOS Login
Type in 'resetpassword' and press enter/return.
-bash-3.2# resetpassword
-bash-3.2# 2020-05-05 19:25:18.759 KeyRecoveryAssistant[596:35392] NSDisabledCharacterPaletteMenuItem=YES
2020-05-05 19:25:18.778 KeyRecoveryAssistant[596:35392] TISFileInterrogator updateSystemInputSources false but old data invalid: currentCacheHeaderPtr nonNULL? 0, ->cacheFormatVersion 0, ->magicCookie 00000000, inputSourceTableCountSys 0
Keyboard Layouts: duplicate keyboard layout identifier -14934.
Keyboard Layouts: keyboard layout identifier -14934 has been replaced with -28673.
2020-05-05 19:25:19.033 KeyRecoveryAssistant[596:35392] unable to obtain configuration from file:///Library/Preferences/com.apple.ViewBridge.plist due to Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 “The file “com.apple.ViewBridge.plist” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file.” UserInfo={NSFilePath=/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ViewBridge.plist, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fd3dc670960 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 “No such file or directory”}}
2020-05-05 19:25:20.800 KeyRecoveryAssistant[596:35550] Connected to daemon. Language set to: English
Connected to daemon. Language set to: English
2020-05-05 19:25:20.800 KeyRecoveryAssistant[596:35550] Connected to daemon. Language set to: English
Connected to daemon. Language set to: English
-bash-3.2#
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