Macworld - USA (2022-01)

JANUARY 2022 MACWORLD 111

showing your Mac loading the operating
system begins to fill.

2. When the macOS Recovery screen
   appears, choose Utilities → Terminal.


3. Enter the text resetpassword and
   press return.


4. macOS Recovery launches the
   special Reset Password assistant. Select
   the option “My password doesn’t work
   when logging in” and click Next, then
   follow the remaining steps.
   With an M1 Mac, the steps are a little
   more involved:


5. Shut down the Mac if active.


6. Hold down the power button to start
   up and continue holding it until you see
   the message “Loading startup options.”
   That takes about 10 seconds. Release the
   power button.


7. Click the Options icon.


8. If presented with a list of accounts
   you can use to log in to access macOS
   Recovery, click “Forgot all passwords?”
   You may also or instead be able to use
   your Apple ID to log in.


9. When the macOS Recovery screen
   appears, choose Utilities → Terminal.


10. Enter the text resetpassword and
    press return.


11. macOS Recovery launches the
    special Reset Password assistant. Select
    the option “My password doesn’t work
    when logging in” and click Next, then
    follow the remaining steps.

HOW TO SHARE A WI-FI

CONNECTION ON ONE MAC

OVER ETHERNET TO ANOTHER

Apple added an Internet Sharing option in

the Sharing system preference many years

ago. This feature lets you share one Mac’s

incoming internet connection via other

network interfaces on that Mac. At one

point, this was a popular way to create

what was once called a “software base

station” and now is more generally called

a “personal hotspot.”

But it’s also a great way to bridge your

network if you have an older Mac with

broken, missing, failing, or weak Wi-Fi. As

Apple has matured its lineup of computers,

it has also upgraded the flavors of Wi-Fi

supported. Macs older than five or so

years include slower, older versions of

Wi-Fi and network cards that have weaker

signal transmission and reception, as well

as radios with less tolerance in sorting out

overlapping signals.

Ethernet and Internet Sharing offers

one way to fix that if you have an easy

enough way to connect two desktop

Macs with ethernet ports. (You can

connect laptops, too, but then this

solution works only when the sharing Mac

is present.) If either Mac lacks ethernet,

you can add it through a USB-C or

Thunderbolt 3 dock for newer Macs or a

USB adapter or Thunderbolt 2 adapter or

dock for older Macs.