security agent was unable to create requested mechanism builtin:prelogin

I have a MacBook Pro 2014, I used to have Catalina and I didn’t want to update it, I was having some issues and decided to backup all my stuff in an external hard disk, deleted everything and when I reinstalled the system - Catalina - I tried to restore but it gives the error security agent was unable to create requested mechanism builtin:prelogin, if you can give me any kind of help.

thanks.

Earlier Mac models

Posted on Mar 11, 2023 8:53 AM

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