macOS Catalina’sMac Firmware Password

October 9, 2019 ~ hucktech

Nikolaj mentions that the latest macOS firmwarepasswd command has a new feature:

macOS Catalina brings a small, but important update to Mac Firmware Password mechanism: you can now opt-out (and back in) from password reset mechanism used by AppleCare (see https://t.co/Y4AaGuJojC for it's guts).
It makes FW password harder to reset, use it on your own risk! pic.twitter.com/qhj9GUWoDI
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) October 8, 2019

And Xeno replied later in that Twitter thread about enterprise ability to block the use of this feature:

Sure…by setting a firmware password first so that your managed machines are managed by you. MDM added the ability to set a fwpass a couple years ago IIRC.
— Xeno Kovah (@XenoKovah) October 9, 2019

See-also:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204455

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