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Hide the logins of users on the mac, separate the users by spaces. the data array is stored in a plist file called /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
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Hide Users

This one liner hides users on a Mac OS X v10.4 and later.

Just seperate each user you would like to hide from the login menu with a space and it will store it to an array inside of loginwindow.plist file.

The key is HiddenUserList along with the array values that you inputed of the users.

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hideUsers.sh
# quick one-liner
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList -array-add user1 user2
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