An Invisible Account Appears On Login

When my login screen comes up I have two accounts my own (admin) and also another account, but when I go into Sytem Preferences I can't see this account... Someone told me it oculd be to do with Apache? I have no idea but I would love to know how to delete it if anyone can help me out?

In normal way, you don´t need the user root. When you have an process which need root access, you can use sudo process. This allowed you to execute root processes under your account with the admin password.
When you have enabled the user root, the option other is automatically in the login screen.

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