Click the “i” icon next to the admin user.In the window that appears, provide your current password and new password.In the sidebar, select the user for which you want to change a password.To change your Mac user password, follow these easy steps You should periodically change your password if you think that someone could easily guess your password. You can protect your Mac from unauthorized access and malicious programs. The system requires you to enter your password due to security reasons. This password is used when you log into your Mac when you install third-party applications, make changes in the system, and in a few other cases. Ignore the part about how to do it if it's a newer M1 silicon machine.When you create a user on a Mac, the system requires creating a user password. Here's a link with some more info and options and walkthrough basically. If you don't want anything on it you can simply reinstall the operating system from the recovery options window. Then you can save pics he may have had etc. It'll ask which account you want to reset password on, select his account and make whatever password you wish and then it'll prompt you to restart, then use that password to login. Type "resetpassword" as one word, without the quotes, and press Return. A new window will show up, waiting for you to enter a command. Then once the recovery options screen opens, With your Mac now in Recovery Mode, click on Utilities in the menu bar followed by Terminal. (Power on machine) and immediately hold down the command and R key for about 10 seconds or so.it'll boot up slow. If it's just a simple login password then yes and you can do that without data loss. or it's a paperweight and nothing can be done unless you have original receipt and ID to match it and take it to apple. If it's an Apple ID passcode and firmware locked (file vault on) and it prompts you for that before it'll let you into recovery mode then no, you'll need that passcode or recovery key etc. (Power on machine) and immediately hold down the command and R key for about 10 seconds or so.it'll boot up slow
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