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10.4: A fix for users disappearing from the login window
This is almost certainly the desired behavior: setting the shell to /usr/bin/false is the standard Unix way to prevent login from an account and is the shell set for users nobody, daemon, lp, postfix, www, and so forth. If you don't want to have people login into these accounts, you certainly don't want them to show up in FastUserSwitching.My goal wasn't to disable these accounts completely - just their access to the shell environment. I took my cue from a comment in this hint (search for /usr/bin/false), which seems to suggest that you can do just that. I made that change to several accounts on my machine using NetInfo, and it worked as expected. I made the changes, logged into each account, and tried opening the Terminal. Each time it loaded the false shell.
My guess is that you made the change in NetInfo that might have been ignored in the past. With the recent upgrade some of that NetInfo behavior might have changed, causing the user names to disappear from your list.I'm sorry - I don't quite understand what you're saying. Would you mind rephrasing it?
10.4: A fix for users disappearing from the login window
Why don't you simply restrict the use of unwanted applications in System Preferences ?
10.4: A fix for users disappearing from the login window
/sbin/nologin is the proper way to disable the shell in netinfo. If you only disable terminal in system prefs, the account can still be accessed via ssh. |
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