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Keep UID above 501 for login window account display
Authored by: kcamera on Aug 29, '03 03:52:45PM

I'm well aware it's a feature to hide administrative accounts from the user list. No one wants to see root, daemon, sshd, ftp, etc. in the list...

My only reason for the slightly sarcastic quotes was the *way* in which they did it, by filtering all UIDs under 501. I would have expected something more robust, like marking an account as hidden in the NetInfo key for the user. Or having an internal list of hidden accounts, much like how the root of the filesystem hides the UNIX/kernel files but not new ones you create.

Sorry for overacting... didn't mean any offense.



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