Can’t log in to your Mac because you forgot or lost your user password? That can be stressful, but don’t freak out quite yet. Whether it’s your primary admin password or password to a standard user account on someone else’s mac, you can reset it in a couple of minutes.

While you can use an Apple ID to quickly reset a Mac password, that’s simply optional and not enabled by default, so many Mac users may not even be aware that is an option, let alone have it enabled. In such cases, if you forget your user password, you’ll have to resort to other ways…