{"id":10852,"date":"2015-03-20T14:08:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T18:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10852"},"modified":"2015-03-20T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T18:08:35","slug":"login-screen-shows-update-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/20\/login-screen-shows-update-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Login Screen Shows &ldquo;[Update Needed]&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran into <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/3321886?tstart=0\">this<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/questions\/157077\/user-named-update-needed-after-installing-yosemite-with-encrypted-drive\">issue<\/a> where the Mac&rsquo;s login screen shows, in the place of a user account icon, a generic <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/questions\/152271\/user-update-needed-after-updating-to-mac-os-x-yosemite\">question mark icon<\/a> with name &ldquo;[Update Needed]&rdquo;. Despite the scary icon, I was able to select the &ldquo;account,&rdquo; enter my password, and log in as normal. There was no OS update available.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be related to having FileVault enabled and having multiple user accounts, not all of which have the FileVault credentials. I was able to fix it by decrypting and then encrypting the hard drive. After reading some more, perhaps it would have been possible to go into the FileVault tab of the Security &amp; Privacy preferences pane and make sure that each user account has access to decrypt the disk.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran into this issue where the Mac&rsquo;s login screen shows, in the place of a user account icon, a generic question mark icon with name &ldquo;[Update Needed]&rdquo;. Despite the scary icon, I was able to select the &ldquo;account,&rdquo; enter my password, and log in as normal. There was no OS update available. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[706,30,903],"class_list":["post-10852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-filevault","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10853,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions\/10853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}