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Hiding the PaperCut account from the login screen on Mac print servers
On Mac print servers (systems that you set up as a primary or secondary PaperCut server), PaperCut creates a host user or service account. This account is used to run the various services and processes required to track printing. Running as a service account allows the administrator to manage access control and have more comfort in the security of the system than if those processes ran as root (a security faux pas).
This service account will be displayed on the login screen of Mac print servers by default, despite it not being a regular user account that anyone could log in as (it has no password). The following article explains how to hide user accounts from the login screen on a Mac:
Categories: Administration, Apple Mac OS X
Keywords: PaperCut NG Host User, hide welcome screen user
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