Account not in account list.  - Major problems happened to my account

Intro
I installed a program that really messed up my main account. I have "fixed" most of it. I will ask my specific question first since most people will not want to read a ton. I will also write what happened since that knowledge may be needed. I have multiple issues which I will post as separate threads in their relevant forum, all with this this header.
Problem:
When starting my machine, my main account no longer shows in the list of accounts to log into. "Other" appears and I can use that, enter my username and pword and log in that way. How can I get my account added back to the list?
Background:
I installed a FTP server called MySecureShell. It had a setting for the initial ftp dir which was set to /home/$user. I set it to /home/jedherzog (jedherzog is the account shortname that I use). After restarting my machine everything in my account was broken. The dock and desktop were the OSX defaults. None of my apps would run, they returned a permission error. In finder "jedherzog" was in the sidebar like I was logged into that account but if I tried to access it or the desktop I got permission errors. I ran terminal but instead of seeing the prompt jedherzog: I saw -MySecureShell(265) malloc: and a long error message and I could not use it. I ran disk utility and repair permission but it did not help. I created a new account called temp and everything worked fine in it. So I was convinced OSX was fine, it was just the account jedherzog that was messed up. So using terminal I sudo(ed) to root and looked at the /Users/jedherzog dir. The owner was set to 501 not jedherzog. So I changed it back (recursively) to jedherzog. Now, back in the jedherzog account, things look much better. My dock and desktop are restored. My apps run but all act like they are running for their first time. From what I can tell I have access to all of my files (although I got "operation not permitted" messages on a lot files when I changed the owner back to jedherzog). But my terminal still does not work (will post in a different thread). My account is not in the account list at start up). That is all that I have found wrong so far.
Thank you for your help

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