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lapinos · Jan 9, 2003, 06:59 AM

Can I hide one or more user(s) from the users login list?
This way I could hide unnecessary profiles from the public.
I heard about an operation in NetInfo manager.

Thanx - Greg

ism · Jan 9, 2003, 01:45 PM

I think it has something to do with groups and the gid. All normal users that you see in the login list have a gid of 20. I am assuming that by setting this to another value it will hide the user. However, I really wouldn't just go ahead and do this, but hopefully it'll give you something to start on.

There is more information on groups here: macosxhints

BTP · Jan 9, 2003, 03:29 PM

This isn't *exactly* what you want, but you can turn off the list of names completely, so someone would have to guess the user name AND password.

lapinos · Jan 10, 2003, 01:58 AM

Originally posted by BTP:
This isn't *exactly* what you want, but you can turn off the list of names completely, so someone would have to guess the user name AND password.

Right, that isn't exactly what I need...
Imagine I have 3 "public" profiles that are on the login list, and 2 additional like <Admin> and <Recovery> which would be accessible in "type" mode only by clicking a [more...] button that exists I think.

I think I remember something in NetInfo manager like removig the entry "shadow_name", or a similar operation.

greg

Xeo · Jan 10, 2003, 02:08 AM

Originally posted by lapinos:
Right, that isn't exactly what I need...
Imagine I have 3 "public" profiles that are on the login list, and 2 additional like <Admin> and <Recovery> which would be accessible in "type" mode only by clicking a [more...] button that exists I think.

I think I remember something in NetInfo manager like removig the entry "shadow_name", or a similar operation.

greg

Setting the password to "*" in NetInfo Manager is the only way I know off hand to remove the user from the login list. This will also disable the user's ability to log in so that's not what you want.

I'd be interested to hear if there is another way. I haven't explored this since Jaguar came out so there might be something else that could work.

lapinos · Jan 16, 2003, 02:38 AM

I am sure I saw this function in a tech note or an OSX related website. Any info anyone?

thanx

barney ntd · Jan 16, 2003, 10:10 AM

It's easy. Go to Netinfo Manager, and delete the user's full name. Then they wont appear on the login panel, but you can still use them.

Barney.

lapinos · Jan 16, 2003, 10:15 AM

Really? I'll have to try it!
Greg

alphasubzero949 · Jan 16, 2003, 07:16 PM

Have you tried SharePoints? You can have people log in under an "invisible" account to access your public files that you don't want in your own account.

lapinos · Jan 17, 2003, 04:52 AM

Has anyone already tried or used that feature?
I need to hide an admin account to avoid to confuse the regular dummy users, but I haven't done any change to the configs yet.
greg

CyberGreg · Jan 17, 2003, 05:21 AM

Originally posted by barney ntd:
It's easy. Go to Netinfo Manager, and delete the user's full name. Then they wont appear on the login panel, but you can still use them.

Barney.

Thanks! That worked great!

lapinos · Jan 17, 2003, 05:41 AM

Yes, the user disappeared from the login list.......

But how do I log into that user?

baggie · Jan 17, 2003, 06:43 AM

Originally posted by lapinos:
Yes, the user disappeared from the login list.......

But how do I log into that user?

The login list should have 'Other' listed at the end of your list of users - click that and enter username and password when prompted.

I am fairly sure that 'Other' is added to the list when you have the root account set, but may be it is also shown when you have other users without a full name.

Do you have Other in the list on your login panel?

barney ntd · Jan 17, 2003, 07:08 AM

If you don't have root user set, you can still get the "other user" panel to appear by pressing alt-shift-downarrow then return. There should be a less obscure way to do this!

Barney.

jimsmac · Jan 17, 2003, 07:26 AM

Originally posted by barney ntd:
If you don't have root user set, you can still get the "other user" panel to appear by pressing alt-shift-downarrow then return. There should be a less obscure way to do this!

Barney.

Or as per this article at MacosxHints, press the down arrow to highlight one of the listed users and the while holding down the Option key, press return.

lapinos · Jan 17, 2003, 09:04 AM

Originally posted by baggie:
The login list should have 'Other' listed at the end of your list of users - click that and enter username and password when prompted.

I am fairly sure that 'Other' is added to the list when you have the root account set, but may be it is also shown when you have other users without a full name.

Do you have Other in the list on your login panel?

No, no <other> button...