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March 13, 2006
How to Hide a User Account in Mac OS X
It turns out that the trick to hiding a user account is the userid needs to be less than 500. The always-enjoyable Mac Geekery has explicit instructions for changing an account:
Make the user in System Preferences (secretadmin in this case)
Quit System Preferences
In Terminal:
$ sudo dscl .
Password:
> cd /Users/secretadmin
> read
...
UniqueID: 502
...
/Users/secretadmin > change . UniqueID 502 402
/Users/secretadmin > change . NFSHomeDirectory /Users/secretadmin /var/root
Open System Preferences; the user should not show up (ID is below 500)
Delete the now-unused home in /Users
Posted by Ozguru at March 13, 2006 06:00 AM
