Recovery Mode Startup Security Utility reporting no administrator accounts found

Question

I booted into recovery mode and started up the Startup Security Utility - but says no administrator found.

I am the administrator. I booted normally and checked user&groups and was listed as Admin. Even though there was no account name listed above the 'Admin' text. But it does list the account/login name on the login page.

When I boot into recovery mode, I assume the recovery partition is active and there's no admin accounts in that partition???? not sure. But there is in the main macos partition on the HD.

This is mac mini w/ T2 chip and Ventura 13.2

Answer 1

The problem and solution seems to be very silly.

The issue was that for my admin account, there was no full name set - it was blank.

I entered something in there, restarted SSU and it detected the account.

The kicker is that it looks for a filled out full name and then just displays the username (used for desktop login).

I would think it should be just looking for the account type (i.e. admin).