Hidden Accounts unhiding?

[nobrainer]

I’m a bit confused.
I made an image with our Casper management account and our corporate local admin account, both hidden… I verified this by installing on 3 different Macbook pro laptops (2008, 2009, 2010)…. However when I image a MacPro (desktop) the accounts are no longer hidden.

I first noticed this when I had Casper making it’s own account when a machine was imaged. It would remain hidden until I installed Adobe CS3… then all of a sudden the Casper account would unhide itself. It seemed to be the only app that would cause it to unhide. So this weekend I made a new InstaDMG image with both the Casper and our Local admin figuring that would take care of the issue.

[foilpan]

are you doing the following in your image?

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/usr/bin/defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users -bool true
/usr/bin/defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList -array username
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i set hidden admin users’ UIDs to something unused below 500 and ensure the above is applied at some point. haven’t had any problems.

[nobrainer]

nope, I used the createuser.pkg files to create 2 local admin accounts that are hidden.

I’ve tested some apps to see what causes it – seems like our applications cd unhides the casper account (it was created with a before / after snapshot), but leaves the other local admin hidden.

Office 2008, AdmitMac, and Acrobat Reader seem to be fine (leaves both accounts hidden). All were packaged with Casper…

I’m still testing the remainder of the packages/dmg for our base build

[nobrainer]

Seems to be a problem with Symantec AV 10.2.3.pkg file. After I install that both accounts appear on the list.

But we’ve been using 10.2.3 since January and on our old method of builds it wasn’t an issue – it’s just since we started using instaDMG / CreateUser.

[nobrainer]

I think I figured out the AV problem, there is a users folder that had info in it – I just opened the file back in composer and deleted it. Trying on a couple lab systems.

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