Using Mountain Lion I have FileVault whole-disk encryption enabled on my Mac’s system drive. Today I removed a few accounts from my machine as I no longer had need for them.
After deleting the accounts, they have been removed from System Preferences -> Users and Groups preference pane, but when I reboot the EFI decrypt screen still include the deleted accounts. Entering their passwords decrypts Filevault and system startup commences.
This is, of course, not what I wanted. I would like all traces of the accounts I removed to be deleted – and I particularly do not want them to be able to decrypt FileVault, essentially rendering it useless. This is so contrary to user intention it must be considered a bug?
A workaround, had I not already removed the accounts, I guess I could have changed their password to something really complicated, but I can’t even do that.
Any ideas? Pretty please?
After deleting the accounts, they have been removed from System Preferences -> Users and Groups preference pane, but when I reboot the EFI decrypt screen still include the deleted accounts. Entering their passwords decrypts Filevault and system startup commences.
This is, of course, not what I wanted. I would like all traces of the accounts I removed to be deleted – and I particularly do not want them to be able to decrypt FileVault, essentially rendering it useless. This is so contrary to user intention it must be considered a bug?
A workaround, had I not already removed the accounts, I guess I could have changed their password to something really complicated, but I can’t even do that.
Any ideas? Pretty please?
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