Secure Token Access - Overview
Secure token access is a part of Mac's encryption technology called FileVault. Secure token privilege is like an invisible/secret form of a key encryption key (KEK) secured by a user's password. The ability to allow cryptographic processes such as decrypting and unlocking the FileVault disk is an account attribute. This privilege will be automatically granted to the account created first and new. In addition, a secure token will be granted during
- The first login
- Setting up the first user's password
Whenever your computer reboots, the login screen may be accessed by a user with secure token access. To put it differently, if you are capable of accessing and signing in to the system with your user password, this means that you have an authenticated token access right now. Otherwise, to prevent access you will not even see a user account on the login screen. Therefore, the system cannot be unlocked.
This privilege applies to both admins and standard users. Standard users with secure token access can do the above-mentioned action only (like decrypting FileVault screen).
An admin with this privilege is entitled to
- Grant it to other users who don't have it and can also revoke it. Using a specific command tool named sysadminctl, you can grant, revoke and check the other accounts' status of secure token privilege.
- Change the passwords of other users
To this end, you're setting up a dedicated Zoho One service account and looking for secure token access. You will be able to do the above actions when a user who already owns this account has transferred it into that account. A password prompt appears while you are installing the ZD agent. Here we'll enter the authentication credentials of a user with secure token access enabled. This will extend the secure token access.
Now that you have added secure token access to your account, the credentials related to this are stored in one of the databases. These credentials allow you to reset other users' passwords, as well as update any password that is out of sync.
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