No, that has nothing to do with the issue. Apple support says: This is an issue that is based in the core of the programming. The engineer tested the problem on Unix, and the behaviour was the same. Seems like the password prompt is just too slow. I'll try to open a new topic in the opengroup.org forum. This problem unfortunately is nothing that is in apples control directly. Still I see a huge risk in this behaviour. So in theory this problem should occur on all macs, as macOS is unix based.