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10.4: Hide users from the login window via prefs
Authored by: aronr on Aug 31, '05 07:36:37PM

Once the user is hidden, how do you select it for login via the main login screen (or FUS)?

And the initial response in this thread was:

To login as a hidden user with Fast User Switching, choose the "Login Window ..." option near the bottom of the FUS menu. That gives you a window in which you can type the user name and password of the hidden user. I assume that the same applies to the login window that appears at start up.

To follow-up on the previous response:

Under Mac OS X 10.3.9, at least, but not necessarily Tiger:

  1. Get to the login window, either at startup or after selecting "Login Window..." from the bottom of the Fast User Switching menu.
  2. Press Option-Right Arrow.
  3. Press Return. Alternately, click the entry for any other, non-hidden user.

You will be presented with Name: and Password: fields, into which you can enter the name and password of any user, including any hidden users.

Note: This didn't work on the one 10.4.2 system I tried it on. Does anyone have suggestions for how, in the login window, to switch from a list of one or more named users to a Name: and Password: login?



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10.4: Hide users from the login window via prefs
Authored by: gommino_2000 on Aug 31, '05 09:38:18PM

In Tiger, to get the Name: & Password: fields, press down-arrow and then shift-option-enter.

Rob.



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10.4: Hide users from the login window via prefs
Authored by: pme on Oct 04, '05 02:42:53PM

Don't make things more complicated than they are.

To get the user/password-fields just:

1. Select a visible user, using the keyboard (i.e. press the down arrow key)
2. press [opt]+[return]

voila!

/P-M



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