10.13.6 high sierra, recovery, no Administrators found

First some background...


2 months old Macbook pro 13, mid 2018, re-installed OS by recovery, on an APFS encrypted drive formatted by Disk Utility on recovery pre-install time.


Using system normally to this date. Works as expected. Every time I boot computer it asks me first for Disk password and then for user account password. Expected.


Now I wish to re-install OS. More specifically, I want to install from USB a fresh Mojave version.


To my surprise, booting USB Mojave installation was not possible, it complained that security configuration of my mac did not allow me to install from USB.


Fine, I went into recovery and attempted to use the Security Tool available in recovery, aaaannnd, when I try to use it. I get:


Note that this happens even if I unlock the APFS encrypted drive prior to the above action, on Disk Utility tools, on recovery mode itself.


I went on reading some topics and noticed that my admin users do not have secureToken enabled. No user has.


It seems I cannot even wipe my drive using Disk Utility tools from recovery without an "administrator account", which is very weird.


Any suggestions?


MacBook Pro w/ Touch Bar (2018 or later)

Posted on Dec 7, 2018 6:02 PM

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