Is it possible to unlock fileVault without password.

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Created Dec ’20

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Hi,

in loginwindow, there's an option to modify the login flow by changing the mechanisms list for authorizationRight system.login.console.

I was wondering if there's any option to modify fileVault unlock mechanism to bypass password and use smartcard for example, using the same technic mentioned above.

thanks !

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Dec ’20

I was wondering if there's any option to modify FileVault unlock
mechanism

No. The FileVault unlock UI isn’t run by macOS [1] and thus there’s no way for third-party macOS code to interact with it.

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[1] Prior to macOS 11 it was run by EFI. In macOS 11 and later it’s run by a cut down version of macOS.

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