Who's this group "other..." at login window

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Who's this group "other..." at login window

Hi, I have a new MBP with Lion 10.7.2 on it. I created several users, deleted some again, had trouble with the guest user that is now stuck, and so on ...

Anyway at this moment all turns well exept for the fact there's is now an unwanted group called "others..." at the login. It does not appear in the preferences panel among the other users so I can not delete it.

Anyone can help me how to disable this 'others ...' ?

And if someone knows how to fully restore the guest user after I messed up something in the library that would be a great extra (I tried to have it keep some custom settings like desktop and dock and finder after logout but now when I log in they are there but also my terminal keeps reapearing and the last webpage I visited 😟

THX

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jan 18, 2012 5:05 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 18, 2012 5:10 AM in response to Question-Droid

All Unix-based systems, of which Mac OS X is a derivative, have groups built in that you cannot change. The groups control access permissions to file systems and files.

There are groups such as those with admin permission, standard users, other, eaxh of which can havd read, write, execute permission granted for a file system, directory, file. You control who can do what with your files that way.

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Answer 2

Jan 18, 2012 5:17 AM in response to Ralph Landry1

But it wasn't visible at first. Is there a way to hide it from the login window so it only shows me the users I want and not this group 'others' that I have no idea why or how to use ?

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