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Hide or Show mac Login User – MacOS CLI

Posted on June 23, 2021June 26, 2021 By SFCOMPY™ Editor No Comments on Hide or Show mac Login User – MacOS CLI
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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 is also a simply way to avoid and to protect the mac from any other authorized users to try to login to any other accounts in the computer

# To hide a user account(replace the 'hiddenuser') in the macOS login window

> sudo dscl . create /Users/hiddenuser IsHidden 1 

# To show a hidden user account in the macOS login window

> sudo dscl . create /Users/hiddenuser IsHidden 0 

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