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Users with secure tokens enabled do not appear at the login window

  • July 23, 2019
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After a MBP finishes User Initiated Enrollment and new users are granted a secure token with sysadminctl, they don't appear as a login option on an encrypted drive. My understanding is that I can enable or disable STs to control user options on the login screen. Am I missing something else?

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  • July 23, 2019

Have you read this blog post by Rich Trouton? https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/secure-token-and-filevault-on-apple-file-system/

Accounts created with a script/command line do not have a ST, and to grant one, the account must have one.
Are you using a policy in jamf or doing so within system preferences?


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  • July 23, 2019

We had run into this issue with our computers that were bound to AD. The users were granted a secure token, but then didn't appear on the initial boot screen. By running sudo diskutil apfs updatePreboot / in Terminal we were able to resolve this issue.

And I will second @mlizbeth recommendation to read Rich Trouton's blog. There is a wealth of information there!


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  • July 24, 2019

I have read Rich's excellent post on this, and then some. I should have read the comments too. Sudo diskutil... worked like a charm. Thank you, This saves my entire summer. I would say beers at Grumpy's but, alas it's gone.