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10.4: Hide all low UID users from the login window
Authored by: adrianm on May 22, '06 12:49:14PM
I don't think that setting pwd to * will affect the "Other" feature.

I'm not sure what you mean about ssh, but if you wanted to ssh to your Mac as a user with * as the password, it won't work.

However, you could login as you via ssh (or locally) and then


sudo -s -u otherusername
and type *your* pwd (assuming you are an admin) and you will become the otherusername.

There are other ways, like su otherusername but there are issues too numerous to discuss here.

I think that what you actually wanted was simply a way to stop a user from appearing in the loginwindow, but not prevent logins via ssh.

I can't think of anything offhand for this.

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