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Create completely hidden accounts in 10.5 and 10.4.11
Authored by: digitol on Thu, Feb 12 2009 at 1:49AM PST

I'm late to the party, but Hopefully this will help someone out there out. Check out this guide:

http://www.tcsn.net/mont/hiddenuserleopard/welcome.html

-Digitol-

Create completely hidden accounts in 10.5 and 10.4.11
Authored by: jakov on Wed, Jul 22 2009 at 12:01AM PDT

The best guide I found on how to create a hidden admin is available in a Peachpit-book. They put the guide online at

http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1228912&seqNum=2 (browse to halfway the page)

I use it and it works really nice

Jako