Archive for September, 2007
Hiding Users in Mac OS X 10.4
Friday, September 7th, 2007Hiding users from the log-in window used to be a bit of a pain pre-Tiger. But that’s thankfully no longer the case.
In the bad old days, you’d have to change a user’s UID, which is fiddly process involving NetInfo manager and chmod. When Tiger came along it seemed to become even fiddlier; you also had to set the default shell to /dev/null, which isn’t really useful for hidden admin accounts that you actually want to use locally.
However, there’s a dead easy way to do it just by editing a Preference file:
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