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While in sleep mode, the only way for me to shutdown my iMac, is to unlock the screen first. I have went to lock
screen settings and the Show the sleep, restart and shut down buttons is on. So is there anything else I am missing?
iMac 27″, macOS 10.13
There is no shutdown on Lock Screen.
The settings are grouped together under the name "Lock Screen", but there are two groups as you can see below.
Note that the option for shutdown, etc, appears only in the "when switching user" block.
The first block has to do with locking the screen when there is a user logged in, to protect this user content.
The second block has to do with switching from one account to another.
Probably not the clearest way, but then not all the reorganization of System Settings (from System Preferences) makes a lot sense. In my opinion, some things make more sense than before, others not so much.
That is not sleep mode, it is lock screen. It makes sense that you have to unlock first...
Alternatively, you can set your mac not to lock after a period of inactivity, and instead manually choose "Login Window..." from the fast user switching menu.
Then why would you have the option to shutdown on a lock screen?
Shutdown option in lock screen
