Hid the admin account - Cannot add Under Remote Management

I created an admin account ( short name 'admin ') , gave it User ID 499 under Advanced Options.


Then I hid its home directory


sudo mv /Users/admin /var/.admin

sudo chown -R admin /var/.admin


Doing this with the goal of simply hiding the admin account from other local users on the machine


When I got into Sys Settings -> Sharing -> Remote Management -> to allow the admin account to control/observe via ARD admin I cannot add the admin account? Any other non-hidden account will appear in the list of choices. Is there a way to enable the hidden account to control the machine via ARD?


OS: 10.6.7


ARD admin : 3.4


Maybe there is a a UNIX command to turn this on ?


Thanks

Posted on Jun 7, 2011 7:25 AM

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