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After a restore, macOS still requires the disk password. Here what happened:

First, I used diskutil to format my disk as APFS encrypted and I set a disk password. Then, I installed macOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and restored a TimeMachine backup.

The restore succeed, but something went wrong with disk decryption permissions: now at boot the macOS ask for the disk password (that i know), and afterwards for the user password for my user called john.

The only allowed user to decrypt the disk is a Disk user.

# diskutil apfs listcryptousers /dev/disk1s1
Cryptographic user for disk1s1 (1 found)
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+-- 2FFF91FA-12A5-3F55-8252-85AAF1188EBA
Type: Disk User

and 

# sysadminctl -secureTokenStatus john
2018-08-20 20:40:55.784 sysadminctl[3561:141251] Secure token is DISABLED for user John X.


Is there a way to allow the existing admin user john to unlock the disk?

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The most reliable way to solve this would be to decrypt your disk and then encrypt it using the Filevault settings page.

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