I would certainly appreciate if anyone might suggest something I might try to solve this issue or would point me to some place where I may find a possible solution. ![]() More specifically, in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General, once I click on the locker and may access (yes, there my password is accepted), when saying in the lower end "Some system software requires your attention before it can be used." and I click on "Details" it opens up a window showing a list and then I click on "Ok", then it opens up another windows saying "System Preferences is trying to authenticate user." and there my admin password is not accepted by no means - it does not matter how many times I try. In programs where extensions in the kernel are needed my admin password is not accepted by no means. but there is a specific situation in which I cannot go any further. I may log in and out, I may install programs, access to iCloud. For this process I created my 'new' admin account on the computer and I have been using it. Therefore I needed to reinstall some things on it. Thank you for taking the time to reply and help open my brain to solutions that led to finding a working one.Īdmin password not accepted for updating system software Recently I had to recover my macOS Monterey M1 machine. I hope this helps someone else in the future. (I do not understand this - I have to have an admin password to make the simplest of changes but not to update the OS?) Anyway, when I entered the password for the standard account, which is likely the first account on the history of my Mac migrations (my brain has lost track, even if my Macs have not), Big Sur did in fact update and is now at 11.3.1. To my surprise, it did not even require an admin password. I reasoned that perhaps it would let me install the BIg Sur update by entering the admin password from OUTSIDE the admin account in other words, perhaps the bug wouldn't hinder me that way.įrom the old standard account, unlike the "Test User" account I built on the phone with Apple the other day (which did not show any updates available), the Big Sur 11.3 update showed as available. I decided to play around a bit in an older user account, a standard (non-admin) one, and I noticed that to do certain tasks I had to enter my admin name and password (which always worked). ![]() ![]() I was not able to clear enough space for a full install, but happily, I was able to find a fix.
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