MacOS – Yosemite – Require password after sleep is disabled

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I am trying to prevent the system to always ask for the password when it wakes up from sleep.

  • I have a MacbookPro with Yosemite 10.10.5.
  • User has admin rights and password different than the iCloud one.
  • FileVault is off.

The System Preferences > Security and Privacy > "Require password [5 seconds] after sleep or screen saver begins" is disabled and there's no way to enable it.

If I execute defaults read com.apple.screensaver i get:

{
    askForPassword = 0;
}

If I execute defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver askForPasswordDelay -int 3600 the defaults don't change…

Best Answer

Run in Terminal

defaults write com.apple.screensaver askForPassword -bool false
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