[Evinyatar]

This has got me stumped; I have added a couple of shell accounts to my PowerBook for use with CVS over SSH for each of my co-workers. Now all of these appear in the login window and the fast user switching menu. Is there any way to stop them from appearing there? I don't want them there, it clutters things up and I'm a big fan of neatness.
Thanks in advance.

[philzilla]

open NetInfo Manager and change their UID so it's below 500, making sure you don't allocate another users UID. you should be totally safe with 100-500, as i'm pretty sure OS X doesn't allocate UID's above 100 for system accounts?

[Angus_D]

Accounts aren't shown if they have a uid of <500 (or is that <1000 these days?).

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by philzilla:
open NetInfo Manager and change their UID so it's below 500, making sure you don't allocate another users UID. you should be totally safe with 100-500, as i'm pretty sure OS X doesn't allocate UID's above 100 for system accounts?

Oh and note that you'll have to chown their home directories to them again, rpobably.

[Evinyatar]

Thanks, that did it

[gorickey]

Why not just show the Name/Password box then, instead of a list of users?!?

[sandsl]

Originally posted by gorickey:
Why not just show the Name/Password box then, instead of a list of users?!?

Because then you have you type in your username which takes longer than simply clicking your name obviously