Password (opening session) disappeared after rEFInd installation

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Password (opening session) disappeared after rEFInd installation

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: Julien Colin

Created: 2015-11-23

Updated: 2015-11-23

Julien Colin - 2015-11-23

Hi,

I installed rEFInd on my MacBook yesterday (for the first time) in order to choose between El Capitan (OSX) and Win 10.
When I click on the OSX icon (Boot Mac OSX from Recovery HD), my session is opened without paswword. It is an unsafe situation.

Please, could you tell me how to solve it? Something to change in refind.conf?

Tx

Julien

Last edit: Julien Colin 2015-11-23

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Roderick W. Smith - 2015-11-23

rEFInd does nothing that would affect the OS X (or Windows or Linux or any other OS's) login screen. Chances are you accidentally reset that option using OS X's own tools. Open System Preferences, open the Users and Groups item, and select Login Options. If you're set to automatic login, it will show the account that will be automatically logged in. You can click the padlock icon to make changes to this setting.

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Julien Colin - 2015-11-23

Thank you, it works
However, for sure, rEFInd affects my login screen:
(1) I installed rEfind and the problem occured
(2) I deleted rEFInd and the problem still occured
(3) I reinstalled OSX and the problem disappeared
(4) I installed again rEFInd and the problem occured again

It may have some bug.
But the problem is now solved and everything works fine.

Tx again.

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Roderick W. Smith - 2015-11-23

How did you install rEFInd? That is, did you use the refind-install script or do it manually? How did you work around the System Integrity Protection issue (by installing from the Recovery HD, disabling SIP and installing from your regular system, etc.)? Have you activated and used rEFInd's SIP-manipulation feature? I've never heard of this issue before, and the big recent change is in SIP, so I can't help but suspect they may be related.

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Julien Colin - 2015-11-23

To install :
- At startup : Cmd+R
- In the teminale /Volumes/.../refind-install
- Reboot

Is there something wrong?

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Roderick W. Smith - 2015-11-23

I'm trying to understand and reproduce the failure you've encountered. I tried the exact procedure you describe with no luck. OTOH, that was from an existing installation, not a fresh OS X install.

In any event, installing from the Recovery HD makes it even more puzzling that the regular installation would be affected.

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