Prompted to Log in Twice to OS X Yosemite

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Prompted to Log in Twice to OS X Yosemite

Hello All,

Maybe you have had this issue with other OS X upgrades, but I'm being prompted to log in twice to my MacBook Pro OS X Yosemite (2014 model).

I've upgraded to Yosemite, without any issues, until I noticed that after turning my computer on and logging in the first time, I see a progress bar load.....then the screen goes black, I hear the restart sound, then the same login screen appears for a second time.

I then enter my credentials a second time, see the progress bar load (a little faster this time), them my desktop appears like normal.

I've read some other, older, posts for older OS X builds but none of them addressed the issue completely.

I've turned OFF filevault, to decrypt my HD, restarted and things seemed okay (1 log in request only). So I turned filevault back on, and the first time I logged in, it worked fine (1 log in request only). However, now, after powering off the computer, I'm back to where I started....2 log in requests before my desktop loads properly.

I don't have the time out setting on "to request password after 60min". Filevault is on and my drive is encrypted. No special software loads, just the factory basics...

Any insights or suggestions?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 24, 2014 9:50 AM

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Answer 1

Mat_sg

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165 points

Oct 24, 2014 10:00 AM in response to MacBookPro0987

When you first setup Filevault which of the below options did you choose ?

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Answer 2

Oct 24, 2014 10:10 AM in response to Mat_sg

I choose the second one, to create a HD recovery key.

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Answer 3

Oct 27, 2014 11:21 AM in response to MacBookPro0987

Any other thoughts or suggestions?

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Answer 4

hau328

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Oct 27, 2014 11:44 AM in response to MacBookPro0987

The reason that it is asking you to enter your password twice is because the 1st request is to unlock/decrypt/mount the hard drive and the 2nd request is to log into your account. So if you want to have a single request then see this Apple support article, it has instructions to enable or disable the automatic log in.

OS X: How to disable automatic login when FileVault is enabled

On machine with multiple accounts, you definitely do not want to do this. For example, my Mac has an admin account, a non-admin/standard account (for me), and another non-admin/standard account (for my daughter). When I enabled FV, only the admin has the ability to unlock the disk. So when the Mac starts up after a reboot, I enter the admin account password to unlock and mount the hard drive, then it goes into the user log in screeen. At this point, my daughter and I can log in using our own accounts.

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Answer 5

Eric Root

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Oct 27, 2014 12:21 PM in response to MacBookPro0987

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

Feedback

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Answer 6

Oct 27, 2014 1:00 PM in response to hau328

Okay this is helpful information, but I'm not sure my problem is solved.

I do have multiple users so automatic login sounds like it's not an option. Also, with FileVault enabled, automatic login shows that it is disabled...

What interesting to me is I had FileVault enabled, and had multiple users, while using Mavericks and was only prompted to login once. Since updating to Yosemite, I now have to log in twice (once it appears to unlock the disk, and another to log into my account). Apple is this just how it goes? or is there a setting I can enable to log in only once?

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Answer 7

Barbe66

Level 1

9 points

Dec 3, 2014 5:13 PM in response to hau328

Thank you resolved my question, why I have to log in before loading.

Thanks again.

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Answer 8

Dec 5, 2014 2:00 AM in response to MacBookPro0987

I have the exact same problem on my iMac and my MacBook Pro (15"). Hope they fix it soon.

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Answer 9

techb0t

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Dec 26, 2014 6:14 AM in response to MacBookPro0987

resetting my password fixed the problem for me

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Answer 10

banjogil

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Mar 6, 2015 7:00 AM in response to techb0t

I had a similar problem: logging in from a standard account in Yosemite required that I login twice. This happened both during start up, or when waking up from sleep mode. Changing (or reseting) the password of my standard account seems to have problem. Thank you techb0t for this suggestion.

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Answer 11

Alex2012

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Mar 24, 2015 8:55 AM in response to MacBookPro0987

I'm just now encountering this issue. I recently changed my login password, and directly after that my 2014 Macbook Pro has been prompting me to put in my old and new passwords to login to my computer. I have never seen this before until now. I sent feedback to Apple about the problem.

And in my case, my screen does not go black and my computer does not re-initiate the restart sequence. It simply asks me for my old password, then when answered correctly asks me for my new password, then logs me in when answered. No other screens, sounds, or pauses appear.

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Answer 12

romols

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Apr 1, 2015 5:20 AM in response to MacBookPro0987

I would be very pleased to know how you did manage to reset your Hard Drive Password ,

I wanted to reinstall Yosemite on my MacBookPro , and have tried many times so far and did not succeed.

thanks for your help.

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Answer 13

May 28, 2015 2:24 AM in response to techb0t

Resetting the password did the trick for me. Thanks!

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Answer 14

Jul 7, 2015 2:43 PM in response to MacBookPro0987

I Have this same issue and I've read the causes, but the strange thing is that I've had my MacBook encrypted for a few months now, but this "Log in twice" process only started to happen a couple of days ago.

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Answer 15

Jul 21, 2015 8:13 AM in response to Alex2012

I have the same problem. We have Dell Data Protection installed. What is funny, is I changed my password before, and it was in sync. Changed it again recently, now I am prompted for old password to mount the hard drive and new one to login. Anyone have any update on this scenario?

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