It is a simple way to hide a user\s account from your mac login screen. from security perspective, when your computer is located and connected to a network at public places – its a simple way to protect your mac from exposing the login screen with the standard and the admin users accounts names. it…
It’s a great and simple security check tool to find which running process belongs to users that have never officially logged in or never got any authorization to log in. this will provide you some good idea about any hidden system resources consumed by the unofficially\unauthorized logged-in User, resources such as CPU time, Memory, Network…
Read More “Find the Running Process of a Given User – MacOS CLI” »
This is an example that shows how to create a Sudo user, means a Standard user with an Admin privileges, with this capabilities you will be able to perform some system changes and install software at system level(root level) from your a standard user account without the need to switch to an Admin user account…
To make \Users folder to be visible or invisible , the command must be run with a sudo privilege and when the system hidden file mode must be set to invisible(system hidden file). follow the command we need to restart the Finder (killall Finder) and then to wait few second until the Finder will be…
A simple way to get the MacOS users list, from security perspective this a simple way to recognize unauthorized and suspicion user activities # List All Users bash> dscl . -list /Users # Exclude user/s from users list bash> dscl . -list /Users | grep -vE “_|root|nobody|daemon|Guest”
