hey everyone today i'm going to show you
how to enter your password into terminal
on the mac operating system so some
people get a bit confused about this
because if they have a terminal window
open that they can't see what they're
typing into the password field and i
think that something has gone wrong so
today i'm going to show you how to enter
your password so if you haven't
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i've got a terminal window up and we're
just going to make this bigger by
pressing command plus and then we're
going to put it in the center of our
screen and what i'm going to do now is
to simulate what happens when you have a
password prompt come up on terminal so
i'm going to type in sudo v and press
return now it's asking for a password so
you might be a little bit confused by
this because when you type in password
nothing will appear on screen however
you have typed something and if you
press return now then it's going to
accept whatever you entered as the
password attempt so make sure that you
know what your password is before you
actually try to type this into the
terminal window so as an example here my
password is the word password
p-a-s-s-w-o-r-d
i'm gonna press return
and now that's been accepted so all you
have to do is to type in the password
you won't be able to see any asterisks
or stars or anything like that and just
press return and then you'll be able to
enter it if you keep getting the
password wrong you can go to the apple
logo here go to system preferences then
go to users and groups and then you can
go ahead and click the padlock icon here
and you can test your password out see
if it's correct so i'm going to type in
password here to unlock and if it's
correct then the padlock will become
unlocked and you'll be able to access
your local account and if you want to do
as well you can also change your
password here too and then when you're
prompted in terminal again you'll know
that that is the correct password to use
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