My name is Cédric Bozzi, I make apps and websites, and this is my tech blog — you’ll find news commentary here, from a very opinionated Mac-head.
Il y a une version française ici, but most of this blog’s contents are extracted from my Twitter feed, and hence only available in one language (which varies randomly).
My brand new MacBook finally returned from AppleCare today, almost a month after it stopped working (I’m not entirely sure the delay is Apple’s fault, actually — in retrospect I have trouble trusting an affiliate who has a $60 “express” option to get your computer checked within the week). It’s back with a new motherboard (sorry, I meant logic board) and, for some reason, a nice message at the login window: “You are unable to log in to the user account ‘admin’ at this time.
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So, what to do then? Put the OS X install CD in the drive, restart the computer while pressing’ C’, and go to Utilities / Reset Password to reset the password for your FileVault account. I have no idea what went wrong, not to mention how a logic board exchange caused that, but all it took was resetting the password to what it already was supposed to be. (It took a bit of trial and error for me, though, because the install CD booted in Qwerty and I typed my password in Azerty, assuming that an Apple install was intelligent enough to figure what layout my keyboard has.)
Moral of the story: enabling FileVault for the admin account is a bad idea.
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