"Other" User Account Suddenly Appears

why i cant type my password ? it has a key icon after the password :(

Which means, "type your password, here."

The only reason you can't type your password there is if you don't try. Just type and hit return. Nothing will echo back on the screen.

It's all there, you just have to scroll.

I have no idea if that will work or not, but it won't hurt anything.

You don't have the root user enabled, so that isn't it.

Other isn't a particular user. It exists to log in using username and password for a "hidden" user. It is hard to tell what would cause it to suddenly appear, though.

Please post a link to the command line instructions you found.

So I had this same issue/concern and tried this command and it didn’t work. It says “defaults (90356:4320737) Unexpected argument FALSE; leaving defaults unchanged”. Any ideas?

Also, if this profile is legit then I’m okay leaving it. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t hacked or anything.

Also, if this profile is legit then I’m okay leaving it. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t hacked or anything.

It would be unbelievably hard to be hacked, but you could certainly install something which you gave your admin password and it create a hidden user account. Or, if you handed the computer to someone and gave them admin privileges into the Mac.

It says “defaults (90356:4320737) Unexpected argument FALSE; leaving defaults unchanged”. Any ideas?

My guess is you entered it incorrectly.

Copy the entire line in Sarge325's post by Triple-clicking the line and copy. Paste that into Terminal.

Yes. Just copy and paste the command.

When it asks for your password, type it in. Nothing will show on the screen.

Thanks, it worked! I was looking at it from my iPhone and the last part was what I was missing.

why i cant type my password ? it has a key icon after the password :(