How do I delete hidden user account?

System Preferences - Accounts.

Select the Account on the left then click - (minus)

You may need to click the gold padlock icon and enter your admin password in order to make changes first.

If the account doesn't show up in System Preferences, check the Livescribe site for support.

You might want to try using Netinfo Manager in the /Applications/Utilities folder to do away with it. Perhaps someone with more track time with that utility can chime in here.

Correct Netinfo Manager was removed in 10.5.x, 10.4 & earlier had it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2294

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetInfo_Manager

BDAqua wrote:

Correct Netinfo Manager was removed in 10.5.x, 10.4 & earlier had it.

Oh, well, since this is the Tiger discussion area, I figured it would be the logical choice. 🙂

Good move methinks, but if you're interested, all Cats...

• Mac OS X v10.0 "Cheetah" - March 24, 2001
• Mac OS X v10.1 "Puma" - September 25, 2001 (6 months)
• Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar" - August 24, 2002 (11 months)
• Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther" - October 24, 2003 (13 months)
• Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" - April 29, 2005 (18 months)
• Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" - October 26, 2007 (30 months)
• Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard" - August 28, 2009 (22 months)
• Mac OS X v10.7 "Lion"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mac_OS_X

BDAqua wrote:

Good move methinks, but if you're interested, all Cats...

Mac OS X v10.8-- Lazy Housecat?😀

I found a solution on how to delete this user account created by livescribe.\

Check

http://www.livescribe.com/int/faq/support_forum.html#/forums/showthread.php?t=11 253&page=2

really not very nice of livescribe.

i thought my machine was hacked and was about to reformat and reinstall everything.

Thanks Charles, for posting your solution! It took me a couple hours trying to find this solution and the LiveScribe link here solved a similar problem I was having.

I had a "ghost user" living in my SL 10.6.8 MBP that I wanted to remove so I could re-use the name (and not have any leftover user accounts that the system was holding onto.) The old user I thought I had already deleted was revealed by Easyfind and showed up in Applejack as a user while in sudo mode, as Applejack allows you to choose which user prefs you want repair and caches you want to purge. I don't use Terminal much but it was very easy to delete the ghost in the machine by copying and pasting--in case someone else has the same issue here's what did the trick:

sudo dscl . delete /Users/GhostUserNameHere

You must use the exact [short] user name, case sensitive. It took me three tries because I left a space or incorrect cap usage, or used the Full Name which was very similar but capitalized differently. If you're inexperienced with Terminal it's important to remember you can completely screw yourself if you make a mistake so don't change anything before the last "/". Hope this helps someone!

Great post, thanks Brazilicano! 🙂

Can someone help me with this? I'm running OS X Lion 10.7.5. There is a user account named Other, when I click on it, it asked for a name and pwd. I just want to delete it cause it was created by an apple care technician. It was a temporary user account to trouble shoot another issue. I don't remeber the login info and it is not showing up in my "Users and Groups" pane under system preferences. It only shows up in the main log in screen when I start up my mac. How do I delete it?

I'm not on Lion but it seems like you ought to be able to remove the user account via the method detailed in my post above. Good luck, and please post your results or further questions.