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[Daniel J. Luke]

On Sep 18, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Ok, understood.  Though I thought anything over 499 would show up  
>> in the login window, which is what I was trying to avoid.  This  
>> user and group I am creating is indeed a non login user.  How does  
>> MacPorts determine which uid/guid to use?  Is there a higher range  
>> that it starts with that also does not show up in the login window?
>
> On my old Tiger install, before doing a clean install with Snow  
> Leopard, I did have a lot of users showing up in System Preferences  
> from ports I'd tested once and then uninstalled. A little annoying.  
> Not sure if there's a way ports are meant to avoid having their  
> users show up there.

I don't know if it works, but the internets seem to say you can do  
something like:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow  
HiddenUsersList -array-add user1 user2 user3 user4

might be something nice to add to base/ (as an option to adduser  
perhaps)

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