I've been using automatic login on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). I work from home and nobody else is ever near my system. Thus, I've removed my Administrator Password (changed it to blank) and enabled Automatic Login. I don't use cloud services and have this disabled everywhere that's possible.
Now since 2 days I've been having extreme login issues that's keeping my from logging into my machine. Usually everything goes fine, I hit the power button, the OS loads and I'm greeted with a desktop.
But something extremely wrong has been going on. Recently, upon boot, I was prompted with a login screen and asked to fill in a password. Because I have no password set up, I expect to hit enter to get to the Desktop. Why the automatic login failed, I don't know.. but that's only a minor issue.
The big problem is, I can't login to my computer!
Turns out, by entering safe-mode, one can successfully log back in to the computer. I entered safe mode, immediately went to the Preferences pane to disable the automatic login and re-instate my administrator password. This should NOT happend. The worst experience one can have with a system is (unrightfully) not being able to log into the OS.
What i think is happening is the system is somehow refreshing parts of the old Preferences.plist file, disabling automatic login and asking for a non-existent password.
Again; This the THE worst user experience one can have with an OS. Never mind non-responsive trackpads/keyboards, problems people have with iCloud or WHATEVER. I should always be able to access my machine if I have the privileges.
Now since 2 days I've been having extreme login issues that's keeping my from logging into my machine. Usually everything goes fine, I hit the power button, the OS loads and I'm greeted with a desktop.
But something extremely wrong has been going on. Recently, upon boot, I was prompted with a login screen and asked to fill in a password. Because I have no password set up, I expect to hit enter to get to the Desktop. Why the automatic login failed, I don't know.. but that's only a minor issue.
The big problem is, I can't login to my computer!
Turns out, by entering safe-mode, one can successfully log back in to the computer. I entered safe mode, immediately went to the Preferences pane to disable the automatic login and re-instate my administrator password. This should NOT happend. The worst experience one can have with a system is (unrightfully) not being able to log into the OS.
What i think is happening is the system is somehow refreshing parts of the old Preferences.plist file, disabling automatic login and asking for a non-existent password.
Again; This the THE worst user experience one can have with an OS. Never mind non-responsive trackpads/keyboards, problems people have with iCloud or WHATEVER. I should always be able to access my machine if I have the privileges.