Password auto fills with dots after sleep

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Password auto fills with dots after sleep

Hi - I notice this thread with posts spanning many years with little recent updates so thought would post again. My iMac, after sleep mode, autofills the password which is not my password. A series of dots appear in the field. The only way to successfully log on is to hard shut down the mac and restart - obviously not a viable solution. I have changed wireless keyboards to see if it would make any different, fully update OS etc, perform complete reset of the machine... I'm now out of ideas.

Is this a sign of a more serious fault?

I have Sophos installed on machine and there is no sign of any concern.

FYI - I'm running macOS Mojave 10.14.5

Any help is gratefully received.

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.14

Posted on May 24, 2019 4:02 AM

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Old Toad

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May 24, 2019 9:56 AM in response to Ste-Buckley

Besides the excellent advice you're already received boot into Safe Mode and test the sleep mode from there. Reboot normally and test again.

NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.

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dialabrain

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May 24, 2019 4:06 AM in response to Ste-Buckley

It may not be a solution to your problem but you should uninstall Sophos, Antivirus programs are not needed on a Mac, interfere with a Mac's own security protections, slow performance, report false possitives and are known to damage the OS to the point of needing to reinstall.

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rkaufmann87

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May 24, 2019 6:03 AM in response to Ste-Buckley

dialabrain is 100% correct, please uninstall the antivirus (and any other third party "maintenance" apps) per the developers instructions. In order for Mac OS to remain secure, simply keep it up-to-date and otherwise please leave it alone.

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Password auto fills with dots after sleep

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