help! My iMac will not accept my password!

[Ana Alfaro]

As far as I know I only have one password, and it is not taking it! What can I do? (I am writing on my secondary computer, but all my stuff is in my desktop)

 

[Egidio]

Did you check to see if the caps lock key is pressed? If that is not the problem, then you can use the original OS install disks and reset your password. Insert the disk and restart your computer. When you restart it, hold down the C key to force the start from the disk. Once it start from the original set-up disk, you will have a menu option to reset the password.

 

[Ana Alfaro]

Did you check to see if the caps lock key is pressed? If that is not the problem, then you can use the original OS install disks and reset your password. Insert the disk and restart your computer. When you restart it, hold down the C key to force the start from the disk. Once it start from the original set-up disk, you will have a menu option to reset the password.

Thanks Egidio. I believe what happened was that last night I was falling asleep and instead of shutting down I logged out. Then this morning she started asking for login pass. I simply shut her down, unplugged and then restarted and it was all ok. But there was this little (nah, MAJOR) panic attack because of a deadline I had to meet.
But thanks, anyway.