Tahoe 26.5.1 password reset

[6502usetabe]

With 26.5,I had to have an Apple Guru help to recover from password reset. In startup recovery mode the computer did NOTHING. I installed 26.5.1, when it came out and just now could not reset my password. Startup in recovery mode this time was successful and I am back up and running. But irritating is putting it mildly!
Anyone else have trouble?

 

[chabig]

I don't understand your question. What is a password reset? What do you mean, "recover from password reset"? I think of password reset as something you do with internet services and websites. On your local Mac, you set a password or you change it. There is no default password, so there is nothing to reset to.

 

[6502usetabe]

I don't understand your question. What is a password reset? What do you mean, "recover from password reset"? I think of password reset as something you do with internet services and websites. On your local Mac, you set a password or you change it. There is no default password, so there is nothing to reset to.

When you start your machine after power-up it requires a password. IN 26.5, my password was corrupted and I when to the Apple Store for Guru help. This morning under 26.5.1, at startup it would not accept my normal password and needed a new password, (password reset). I had to start using recovery mode, which mercifully worked. I have never had this problem before. Does anyone else?

 

[chabig]

Thanks for that explanation. That's very strange that your password didn't work after a restart. Yes, I would call that a password reset too. The machine should not just arbitrarily stop accepting your password. Maybe there is a hardware problem of some sort. After all, this has happened more than once. Did the Apple Guru perform any troubleshooting for you besides just fixing it? And by the way, I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about Macs and I've never heard of this. Usually a failed password is because the user mistypes the password, or the caps lock key is unknowingly turned on. If you use your Mac with multiple languages, it might also be booting to a different language, which changes the way the keyboard works, leading to incorrect password entry.

 

[6502usetabe]

There is a file of Terminal entries in history but that is way over my head. He did say it (password problems) was a known problem. Recovery mode has keyboard, wifi, language, info displayed and it was my normal keyboard.

 

[benholt]

If recovery mode just sat there on 26.5 and then booted normally on 26.5.1, that pattern tends to point at the recovery partition not being able to read the encrypted volume key for some reason — Terminal entries from a Genius are usually around diskutil apfs / sysadminctl for resetting the SecureToken state. Worth checking yours is still healthy: open Terminal and run sysadminctl -secureTokenStatus yourusername. If that ever returns DISABLED, the recovery-mode reset path won't work at all. Also a good idea to grab your FileVault recovery key (System Settings → Privacy & Security → FileVault → Recovery Key) and stash it offline so you've got a fallback before the next round of "known problems."