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I want to create a user(say, hera) that can only be used in terminal. That is this user does not appear in the Mac welcome screen. This user can be su - hera by other users.

Can I do this and how?

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Do you mean "Terminal.app" or a shell (e.g., bash)? – soxman Dec 19 '12 at 8:28
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Could you elaborate on what you're trying to achieve? Because if your only concern is for that user not to appear on the login screen, there could be other solutions. – Thecafremo Dec 19 '12 at 9:34

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I echo the comments above. I'm not sure why you would want to bother hiding the user, why not just have a single admin account, making everyone else "standard" accounts and use sudo in the CLI (Command Line Interface - "Terminal.app") if you need to.

Anyway, here is the Apple tech article on creating hidden users and/or just hiding users from the login window:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5017?viewlocale=en_US

Hope that helps.

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