To change the date from Terminal (which is likely all that will be accessible), follow these steps, which set it to 1 February 2016: In the installer, choose Utilities Terminal. Enter sudo date, press Return, and enter your password. Quit Terminal and continue the install.
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- Bash Profile Configuration. The profile file is run during boot-up to configure the terminal to define file path, shims, and autocompletion handlers. This is the single biggest frustration with people using Linux on Mac. One of the earliest articles on bash here shows shell variables, environment variables, and aliases. Each operating system has its own file name for its profile.
- When it starts up in the El Capitan installer, can you not just quit the installer? The date to use an older copy is Oct 23 or earlier, but not sure how you will be able reset it. 1 Like moitori (Tori Hernandez) November 17, 2019, 6:15am #3.
Passwords for all user accounts can be reset and changed when booted from the Recovery Partition on OS X.
This tutorial can be used for OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.9 Mavericks and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
Step 1. Boot into Recovery Partition
When booting starts press command + R and hold until you see startup screen
Step 2. Go to Utilies>Terminal
Step 3. Insert command “resetpassword” and hit enter (For those that cannot see hard drive insert command “mount –uw /” first)
Step 4. On Reset password screen, select the volume hard drive and user account that you need to reset password. Type 2 times new password and hint and press Save.
You will get confirmation screen and details about the keychain account.
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This procedure don’t reset Keychain password, you will need old password to open it or to create new one.