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No administrator was found

I wanted to run a Windows to go on my new MacBook Pro 2018 with an external drive, because it has the Apple T2 chip (About Startup Security Utility - Apple Support), I have to run the Startup Security Utility to allow booting from external media.

But when I see the macOS Utilities window, and choose Utilities > Startup Security Utility from the menu bar, it asked me to Enter macOS Password. When I clicked it, it said that "Recovery is trying to change system settings. NO administrator was found."

Actually I do have an admin account on my Mac and I don't know why it happened.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018), macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Aug 3, 2018 2:21 AM

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grdh20

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Posted on Nov 16, 2018 12:31 PM

If this happens to anyone else, try enabling filevault in system preferences and then disabling it. That made the missing security token on my imac pro and then in recovery mode I could finally get into the startup security utility with my normal admin pass.

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