Yesterday I was at a customers and used their WiFi to get an internet connection during a meeting to demonstrate the solution developed so far.
This morning when I try to logo onto my Mac Book Pro I get a "You must enable FileVault" message and when I press cancel, I'm just kicked back to login.
So I logged in as Admin and in a terminal window did
fdesetup status
and got the following
FileVault if Off.
Deferred enablement appear to be active for user 'steve'.
So after a quick read of the help and it said that you can us disable to remove the defer so i quickly typed the following and entered the admin password.
sudo fdesetup disable -user steve
but on checking again with status I get the same message
FileVault if Off.
Deferred enablement appear to be active for user 'steve'.
I also tried quoting the user name, but that also had no effect.
Right now I can't really get back onto my machine, other than as admin. I don't want to have to sit and wait why it does the encryption, I'd rather get on with things, and I just want to undo what the customers admin team seems to have applied during my meeting yesterday.
If I try to remove the user from fdesetup
fdesetup remove -user steve
I get the following messsage
unable to remove user with the uuid 'CC409971A-BLAH-BLAH-BLAH-BLAHBLAHBLAH".
How do I turn off this deferred fdesetup for that user account?