how can I hide a user from the login screen?

for instance in windows xp, you can press ctrl+alt+del twice, and it will allow you to manually type in a username/password. I administer some computers at a non profit, and I rarely touch the users computers until something goes wrong with them and they need my help, but in the mean time they hate seeing an extra "administrator" account

> for instance in windows xp, you can press ctrl+alt+del twice, and it will allow you to manually type in a username/password.

You can do that in Mac OS X by pressing an up/down arrow key, and then press Shift-Option-Return.

To set it permanently, you choose Apple->System Preferences->Accounts. Under Login Options, select "Display Login Items as: Name and Password" instead of "List of users".

I still want the list of users, I just don't want specific accounts to be visible on that list. I hope that makes more sense


thanks!

I don't think that's possible. The only way to keep specific users from showing up in the list is to hide them all, like I suggested in my previous post.