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I run a mac mini server at home and it was quite a culture shock getting that thing to do anything like linux. The password retirement at boot is a hard gate and your server will just not do anything until you unlock it. GREAT feature for desktop and laptops, not so much for a server.

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At least they added the ability to unlock through SSH in macOS 26, so you can SSH to unlock, then use screen sharing to do the graphical login. Used to just be broken until you could physically log in.

Just disable FileVault? Full disk encryption on something in your house that never moves? Why? What's your risk profile that your home server needs such strong theft protection?

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