If you move the file, you might want to make some screen captures of the different System Preferences that you've changed or are important to you before moving the file, so you can easily get the system back to the state that you like. Can you change them now after unlocking the padlock?
Then start up System Preferences again - does that help or make a difference when you look at what the Security & Privacy settings are now? If not, try quitting System Preferences again, then moving the file to your Desktop and then starting up System Preferences and forcing it to create a new one. What values do you have for your account for the first two? Try setting them to this:ĭefaults write askForPassword 1ĭefaults write askForPasswordDelay 300
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The first is either 0 or 1, the second is the time in seconds to wait before requiring password after sleep or screen saver begins (only 0, 5, 60, 300, 900, 3600, 1440 are possible choices) and not sure what the last one is. There are only three parameters here, namely askForPassword, askForPasswordDelay and tokenRemovalAction. Since the first is all you want to change, quit System Preferences for a bit, then in a Terminal window, try looking at what they are:
These attributes are saved in your screen saver preferences and system preferences plist file located in ~/Library/Preferences/ (the "Requires password" and time settings) and ~/Library/Preferences/ (the disable automatic login setting). Normally they are both greyed out if the padlock is locked or both able to be set or unset. You''ve got the system in a strange condition - you have one attribute grayed out (the first checkbox about setting the time for a required password) and another attribute able to be checked/unchecked (disable automatic login).
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