Customized guest account migration

Yesterday I received my new Mac. I had three users on my old Mac: admin, standard and guest. I had guest user customized with Mac OS X Server Admin Tools, and the other two accounts just created through OS GNU.
I wanted to migrate the standard user only, so I left the admin user on the new Mac as it came out of the box and used Migration Assistant to copy over standard user. I selected the standard user only, unticking admin and guest.
However, in my login screen now my customized guest account appears as well, but I can't log in as every time I click on it, the display shakes just as I was inputting an incorrect password (and of course guest account can't have any pw).
Any idea how can I access again my guest account or how can I delete it and create a new one?

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UniqueID: 201
UserShell: /bin/bash

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