#Remove pw for mac os x for mac os x#

Apple sells this for 20 but I think they only continue to sell it for Mac OS X upgrades since you need to have 10.6 installed as a bare minimum to upgrade the OS through the App Store. Nota Bene: If you enable a firmware password, you can get into target disk mode by holding down the Alt/Option key at boot, typing in the firmware password, and then holding down the T key. Gatekeeper, first introduced in OS X Mountain Lion, is a Mac security feature. On pre-2011 systems, you can do this with a Snow Leopard DVD or changing the RAM configuration.

#Remove pw for mac os x password#

If you're a Munki admin, you can use this update-firmware-password nopkg in a pinch-just keep in mind that it, like the script above, stores the passwords in plain text.įirmware Password Manager also stores the passwords in a key file in plain text, but that file gets deleted very shortly afterwards. Your MDM (I know, for example, Mosyle does this) may be able to change firmware passwords for you. Select System Preferences from the Apple menu, click the Accounts icon, click the Lock icon, and enter your password. Which is a far more sophisticated way to manage firmware passwords. Keeper protects your business and client data with the privacy, security and confidentiality requirements of your industry. If you want to script firmware password setting, someone wrote a fairly simple script that does it. Keeper uses a proprietary zero-knowledge security architecture and is the most audited and certified product on the market. You'll need the current one to delete it, of course.