Enter a new password and verify it, then click the Next button.ĥ. If you just have one account on the Mac (which is likely if you find yourself in this scenario) the account should automatically be selected.Ĥ. This will launch a Reset Password window behind the Terminal window. In Terminal, enter the following command and hit Enter. Under the Utilities menu, select Terminal.ģ. To access this tool, use the following procedure:Ģ. To fix the account, the resetFileVaultpassword tool needs to be run from macOS Recovery. For more details, please see below the jump. However, it looks like there is a workaround that fixes the password problem and sorts out the Secure Token attribute for the account on a decrypted laptop. Up until today, the only fix I knew of for that situation was to back up the data and wipe the drive.
Usually, this happens because the account password was changed outside of the Users & Groups preference pane in System Preferences and now Secure Token and the account password are out of sync with each other.
“The laptop is decrypted, but we can’t re-enable FileVault now.” Secure Token can present some interesting complications for Mac admins and among them is this scenario: As part of FileVault on Apple File System, Apple introduced a new account attribute called Secure Token.
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