Problem with Apple ID and SECD (security daemon?)

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Problem with Apple ID and SECD (security daemon?)

When I try to sign into my Apple ID (on App Store) with one of my accounts, the cursor spins forever. (This does not happen with the same AppleID from a different user-account on my 2017 MacBook Pro, nor from my iPhone.) Also, the security daemon (I think) SECD crashes randomly from time to time and puts up a crash report. This problem arose after I tried, with only partial success, to roll back my attempt to update to Monterey and return to High Sierra, which is what I am running now. The rollback was complicated because of what Monterey does to the disc structure, but with some guidance from the author of the backup software I had been using, and from whose clones I attempted to restore, I got back to a mostly-working High Sierra. From the SECD crash report:



    Process:               secd [18810]
    Path:                  /usr/libexec/secd
    Identifier:            secd
    Version:               1.0 (1)
    Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
    Parent Process:        ??? [1]
    Responsible:           secd [18810]
    User ID:               509


    Date/Time:             2022-02-11 10:45:24.999 -0500
    OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.13.6 (17G14042)

I believe there is some corruption of my UUID or something like that, but I don't know how to correct/reset/ it. Any hints? I would be willing to create a new user account if there is some easy way to have it retain the contents (Documents and Mail, mainly) of the corrupted one.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Feb 13, 2022 9:07 AM

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Feb 13, 2022 9:36 AM in response to IrlS

I’m guessing that an issue I had today might fall under the same issue. I have been cleaning up my iCloud and backing up files because one of my phones has been glitching and acting strange. When I signed onto my Mac account that shares that Apple ID it started requesting different login ins to resolve an iCloud issue. I can’t remember what the password was before I re installed my system. I have them all written in a notebook but none worked. It kept notifying me that if I couldn’t resolve it that I would have to unencrypt my hard drive even though it’s not the admin account. So I logged out of my Apple ID and went to my iPad to see if I could use the web login to verify my identity by signing into iCloud. While I was there I did face a fight with three screen shot files that managed to save themselves into photos and fought being deleted. I also deleted files that weren’t permanently deleted yet as well. Then I opened my iPhone to see if I had issues with it there. Everything seemed fine but I did find those 3 pesky screenshots saved on my iPhone instead of being deleted in the cloud. So I forever deleted them and went back to my Mac account. I was able to log back in to iCloud with the same id without any prompts or issues. So it was a long work around but seemed to fix my problem.

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Eric Root

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Feb 13, 2022 10:37 AM in response to IrlS

See if anything here helps.

User Account - Rebuild

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Problem with Apple ID and SECD (security daemon?)

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