When you use an iCloud Keychain under Yosemite, it's not possible to login / restart your Mac without entering your login password. When no-one else uses your machine, that's a ridiculous nuisance. Here's how to enable automatic login:
- Go to System Preferences
- Open Security and Privacy
- Change the login password
- Enable automatic login
Done
As to why you would use an iCloud Keychain, that will be pursued further as I intend to disable it. Regardless of the encryption, passwords don't need to be anywhere but here.
Update:
Nope. That still doesn't work although presumably it will if you use an iCloud Keychain. Bleedin' stupid. I verified iCloud Keychain is not enabled on my system and never has been.
Do it from Login Items in Users and Groups. Unknown who changed that but I assume that was our friends at the Apple Store. That function is what selects the account for the login. If not specified, you will be prompted.
Explained: it just dawned that Apple previously did a clean install of Yosemite 10.10.3 and the login prompt must have been the default. Therefore, no-one changed anything as that's stock out of the box.
Note: this is coming to you from the laptop via WiFi. So far, the iMac hasn't been used for anything except reviewing System Preferences.
Once past the peek-a-boo, this will get down to some debugging. Oh joy. (write your own editorial for enjoying this like ...)
- Go to System Preferences
- Open Security and Privacy
- Change the login password
- Enable automatic login
Done
As to why you would use an iCloud Keychain, that will be pursued further as I intend to disable it. Regardless of the encryption, passwords don't need to be anywhere but here.
Update:
Nope. That still doesn't work although presumably it will if you use an iCloud Keychain. Bleedin' stupid. I verified iCloud Keychain is not enabled on my system and never has been.
Do it from Login Items in Users and Groups. Unknown who changed that but I assume that was our friends at the Apple Store. That function is what selects the account for the login. If not specified, you will be prompted.
Explained: it just dawned that Apple previously did a clean install of Yosemite 10.10.3 and the login prompt must have been the default. Therefore, no-one changed anything as that's stock out of the box.
Note: this is coming to you from the laptop via WiFi. So far, the iMac hasn't been used for anything except reviewing System Preferences.
Once past the peek-a-boo, this will get down to some debugging. Oh joy. (write your own editorial for enjoying this like ...)
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