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How to remove "Other" account from login screen?

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I have no guest users on my mac. I have only 1 admin user. Please help me and tell, how i can remove "Other.." login option from my login screen?


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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Mar 2, 2016 1:19 PM

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Posted on Jul 6, 2017 6:59 AM

Thank you. You are correct and your suggestion works.


This is the first time I have ever seen the "other" user in the login screen. I have four Macs on my Network and one NAS.


The command "sudo defaults delete /L*/P*/com.apple.loginwindow.* SHOWOTHERUSERS_MANAGED" just returns a page of syntax suggestions and arguments and accomplishes nothing.


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sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow SHOWOTHERUSERS_MANAGED -bool FALSE

and it worked. Now it's gone. Thank you.


And just for the record, there is no "other" user folder, I don't have "Find My Mac" enabled, and I don't have guest account enabled.

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How to remove "Other" account from login screen?

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