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I've got a brand new MacBook Pro 16" that is running the latest update and under Security/Privacy -> General -> Advanced -> when I uncheck the box or even change the logout time to something other than 30 minutes, it resets itself as soon as I close System Preferences and open it back up again.
Is there a command I can run to do this same thing?
Why won't it stay unchecked?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15
Is this a Mac you purchased yourself, or was it provided to you by an employer or similar? If the latter, they can apply root-level policies that you cannot change (and forcing a time-based logout is an obvious one for security reasons).
Is this a Mac you purchased yourself, or was it provided to you by an employer or similar? If the latter, they can apply root-level policies that you cannot change (and forcing a time-based logout is an obvious one for security reasons).
I have tried running the commands I found for the GlobalPreferences file with no good results.
I've also tried this:
Go to System Preferences | Security & Privacy | Click on "Advanced" on bottom right (unlock padlock first) | Uncheck "Logout after X minutes of inactivity"...and it will look like this worked, but if I close System Preferences and open it again, it is always enabled again...which is my problem...
It was purchased by my organization and you are right! I talked with our team and there was a setting being pushed from our MDM...which they didn't think was the case...and that fixed it.
Case closed.
Turn off auto-logout on 10.15.6 Catalina
