The nice thing about past versions of OS X was that you could establish your own admin password during the set up process when you first installed OS X, but OS X Yosemite no longer does that and it ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. Some Mac users have a single administrator ...

Don't be locked out because you forgot your Mac administrator username This article discusses how to reset the password of an administrator account on a Mac. Resetting an administrator account isn't ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link To delete an administrator on your Mac computer, you must have access to a secondary admin account, too. Once you've deleted an admin account, the ...

There appears to be a serious bug in macOS High Sierra that enables the root superuser on a Mac with a blank password and no security check. The bug, discovered by developer Lemi Ergin, lets anyone ...