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Creating 'secret' user accounts in 10.2
Authored by: gatorparrots on Sep 16, '03 04:06:52PM
Of course, there are other ways...

1). Set the UID (user ID) of the user you wish to hide from the Login Window to a number below 500. You could issue these commands in the terminal to affect such a change:

sudo niutil -createprop . /users/$USERNAME uid 499
sudo find / -user $OLDUID -exec chown 499 {} \;
2). Simply tell the Login Window not to display admin users:
sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow HideAdminUsers true
One can also affect this change with Mike Bombich's LoginWindow Manager application: http://www.bombich.com/software/lwm.html

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I hate GeekLog
Authored by: gatorparrots on Sep 16, '03 04:11:13PM
Of course it had to eat the backslash...
sudo find / -user $OLDUID -exec chown 499 {} \;


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Creating 'secret' user accounts in 10.2
Authored by: roguElement on Feb 27, '05 11:13:14AM

Excellent hint, thank you for the detail.

My case is the opposite - a coworker created a secret account on my PowerBook and uses it to remotely login and create (mostly harmless) michief at will.

My question is this: how do you kill off this secret user? I used your hint to find that I do in fact have a 499 user, but my UNIX skills aren't good enough to delete it.

Thanks



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