Automatically locks security & privacy

Help. I know my passcode to the computer but whenever I enter it to the security & privacy tab under system preferences it unlocks for about half a second and locks itself without me doing anything. It works with any other tabs such as parental controls. My mac is running v10.10 Yosemite. Thanks everyone

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