With 10.8.2 came a useful fdesetup option for use with FileVault 2 encrypted systems. This new option is called ‘authrestart’ and it allows you to reboot a FV2-enabled machine and skip the preboot login screen. This provides a mechanism for doing maintenance that requires a reboot. Check out the details on Rich Trouton’s blog.
Source: Der Flounder
About Nate Walck
Nate is a Macintosh Systems Engineer at Tamman Technologies, Inc in Philadelphia, PA. He is runs afp548.com along with Sam Keeley and is one of the founding members of the ##osx-server IRC channel on freenode.net. He loves being involved in the Mac Admin community and using Open Source projects whenever possible, especially Munki, The Luggage and Puppet.
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