Password issues in Macbook Pro

[jota73]

Not wuite sure if this is the correct place to post this...

Last night some automatic installations happened on my macbook Pro, today I could not log in to my macbook, I even tried resetting using my icloud ID but no luck..spent all morning until finally I could log in... yet process is still missleading.

My icloud setting need to sign in again, but I am getting an message which is absurd as it is asking me a password of an old Imac... no idea of the password I have on that computer!

So my question is:

1. What happened? Was this a bug? How do I fix it?
2. The other macs in which my account is logged in is for tracing the pcs as they assigned to employess.
3. I jut dont want to restart as most likely my password wont work again!


Has anyone had the same problem?

 

[NoBoMac]

Guessing here, but, all the employee Macs under your Apple ID? This message shows when you change Apple ID password and Apple is verifying it's you by asking for passcode on some other device you have registered to you. A 2-factor type situation.

 

[intelinc]

I had this issue when I installed Big Sur on an external bootable USB drive and then migrated my account data from my mojave image to the Big Sur image. I used the same login passwords for both my Mojave user account and Big Sur user accounts. When verifying my icloud account, icloud viewed the Mojave install on the internal drive and the Big Sur install on the external drive as two different macs, and it would not take the correct but identical password from what it saw as the unique Mojave mac. I ended up having to use an ios device to authenticate to iCloud on the Big Sur install. IIRC when you first begin the icloud auth process there is a point where you can decline/drop out (maybe forgot password?) and it will prompt to verify with other authenticated devices for that icloud account.