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Creating 'secret' user accounts in 10.2
Authored by: pheed on Sep 19, '03 09:11:42AM

Does anyone know how to also keep this user from showing up in the "Accounts" System Preference Pane? I'm not sure if changing the user ID to <500 does the trick. I did this first, but then immediately changed it back. I had difficulty setting preferences such as desktop picutre, clock preferences, etc.

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Creating 'secret' user accounts in 10.2
Authored by: ewg on Nov 14, '03 02:27:59PM

Be very, very careful changing uid numbers in Mac OS X.

The reason is that user information, including file ownership, uses the uid, not the username. If you change the uid, you're no longer you.

See a previous poster's 'find' command for a way to change file ownership information to match a changed uid.



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Creating 'secret' user accounts in 10.2
Authored by: boee on May 12, '04 12:35:40PM
Reassign ownership of files to username:
chown -R username.users /Users/username
chmod -R 700 /Users/username

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