Deleting User Accounts

maison2002 Said:

"Deleting User Accounts: Is there any way to either delete the admin account or to disable the login for the admin account and go straight to the login screen for our server logins?"

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Two Thoughts on that Question:

A. Try this Post, and its Answer: Network user accounts not displaying on log in screen - User Community. It is a 2018 post, but it might do the job.

B. Use of Terminal in Recovery Mode:

If someone can get in to Recovery Mode, and then use Terminal, then they can see the admin (and other) users.

The Command:

dscl . list /Users

maison2002 Said:

"Deleting User Accounts: Unfortunately that didn't work. The active directory appears to be setup and configured correctly, but still does not provide the option to login using a network login from boot."

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Once Last Thought:

Try Researching via this Google Search Queue: allintext:network accounts login screen site:discussions.apple.com

Single Out Results:

Add some other keywords, keeping the site:discussions.apple.com part at the end of the search queue. That will bring the answer results down in quantity.

Screenshot:

maison2002 Said:

"Deleting User Accounts: Hi there, I work for a school and we have recently reimaged a macbook pro for general use. We have a server which allows us to login using individual usernames and passwords. Heres where the problem comes in, the mac seems to need a user account, but we do not want that as it forces the user to login to that user account first, before going to the login screen to login as themselves. We are able to delete every account but the last admin account.[...]"

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Two Main Thoughts:

Try Another Browser:

Note that Safari is not always operational with all sites. Typically, you see this with Educational Institutions(schools) and private sites(i.e. Absolute Software). To try Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome to see if all logins is successful.

If of No Success:

Talk to your Web Master: They are the one(s) who manage(s) your technology devices.

Nothing you can enable on the server end to allow a Guest user to login to a login page or a standard highly control user until they can do the real login?

If not you'll need to do some fancy footwork.

Does Guest User goto the Server?

In sys Prefs>Users & Groups, unlock the Lock & check allow Guest Users or turn it ON.

Ah, AD makes a big diff.

I don't see how this can be done without writing something on the Mac to Delete a User's files on exit.

Whoot, great work! :)

I don't see any problems in your situation about FileVault being off.