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Change Password for Managed Account

  • March 15, 2018
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Hey everyone,

We want to start a cadence of changing our localadmin password and I'm torn on the best way to do it, hoping to get some insight.

Currently we have a Management Account setup in User-Initiated Enrollment, if I change the password there I'm afraid that only new Macs that we enroll will get the new password on the localadmin account.

I've thought about creating a Policy to create an admin account and we can manage the passwords that way then create a short term Policy to remove the current localadmin account. However, I'm reading that creating a Policy for an admin account and enabling it for FileVault has issues with APFS.

What might be the best option to go? Ideally I would like to go with the Policy option since in theory we could enable it for FileVault out of the gate.

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  • March 16, 2018

You should just be able to change the password in the policy you have now and then just flush the logs so it hits it all


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  • March 16, 2018

The policy I have now is just a test policy and it's not playing nice when attempting to enable FileVault for the account with APFS. There are no logs on the Management Account(user initiated enrollment) to flush.