How to Delete a "Ghost" User Account
I work on a Power Mac G4 running 10.3.9 on the job. Of the 5 Macs running OSX in our Department (one being my supervisors Powerbook, the other four are desktops) we have each machine setup with only one user account and each user is the machine's administrator account.
Somehow, my station ended up with two user accounts. The main one (the admin) and what I will call a "ghost" account since it turned up out of nowhere. I cannot delete it (the "minus" button is greyed out) and when I go to my hard drive > users > the only folders you see in the Users folder is the main account and "Shared".
The strange thing is the account I can't delete is my Supervisor's Powerbook Account, as if it was seen over the network or something. He's a good friend, so it's not like he added it to control my machine, and he's curious how it got there as well.
I know we use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone all our stations to a portable external hard drive for emergency backups and maybe something happened there that added the "ghost". But, since all the stations have been cloned, it's weird that the "ghost" user only appeared on my station.
I tried booting up off the OSX install CD and repairing disk and permissions and even changing the password on this "ghost" account. Is there anything else I need to try, like deleting a preference somewhere?
Somehow, my station ended up with two user accounts. The main one (the admin) and what I will call a "ghost" account since it turned up out of nowhere. I cannot delete it (the "minus" button is greyed out) and when I go to my hard drive > users > the only folders you see in the Users folder is the main account and "Shared".
The strange thing is the account I can't delete is my Supervisor's Powerbook Account, as if it was seen over the network or something. He's a good friend, so it's not like he added it to control my machine, and he's curious how it got there as well.
I know we use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone all our stations to a portable external hard drive for emergency backups and maybe something happened there that added the "ghost". But, since all the stations have been cloned, it's weird that the "ghost" user only appeared on my station.
I tried booting up off the OSX install CD and repairing disk and permissions and even changing the password on this "ghost" account. Is there anything else I need to try, like deleting a preference somewhere?
PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.5), My first Mac was a IIcx. Those were the days!
