Remove Guest Account

I'm looking to do the equivalant of the following to multiple computers using Apple Remote Desktop.
System Prefrences -> Users & Groups -> Guest User
- Uncheck Allow guests to log in to the computer
- Uncheck Allow guests to connect to shared folders
Does anyone know of a quick Terminal command I could sent to all of the machines to achieve this?

HiYa,
Try:
http://superuser.com/questions/349694/how-to-disable-guest-access-from-terminal- in-mac-os-x
See if that's any help
Regards,
Shawn

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How can I remove the Guest account from the login screen?

I'm very new to the Mac world so pardon this noob question. But how can I control what user accounts are visible on the login screen on OS X? I've already went into the System Preference, User Accounts and set the Guest account to disabled. However this account is still on the logon screen when I reboot the Mac! How can I remove this account and/or make sure that my user account is the only one visible?

I'm not sure why this worked, but I found this in another post and it worked for me.
Even when the Guest Account / Access is disabled, the login option / and lock screen, still have a guest login.
This is because in Preferences/ Security & Privacy/General the bottom item is turned on.
Turn on: Disable restarting to Safari when screen is locked

How to remove my information from guest account

Hello.
I've created a guest account for someone to use while I'm away next week.
When I log in to the "guest" account, I can see the icons for my hard drive, 2 extra hard drives and time machine on an external HD, on the display. I can remove all of the icons by using preferences and un-checking the "hard drives, dvd/cd icons to display" on the desktop options.
My problem is knowing the user of the guest account can do the same thing and have access to all of my data. Is there an option in accounts> creating a guest account that I missed somehow? Is there another way to be sure that my data is safe from the user of my guest account?
Any help would be appreciated.

Your data are safe unless you've made the guest account an admin account. Otherwise, the other user has no access to your files if they are using a managed account. Furthermore, you can use parental controls to further restrict that user's access to data on the hard drive.
The concept of having user accounts is that each user's files are private. Being able to have a drive on the Desktop does not give access to everything on the drive unless the user account has been configured to do so.

How can i completely remove a guest account? from the login screen too?

Having difficulty removing my guest account. I've gone to system preferences and unchecked the guest account but it still appears upon computer boot up as an option. I want it completely off and not showing on the screen when turned on.

On your login screen, that's not a true "Guest" account. It's actually a security feature..your Mac will restart to a secured Safari-only version of the OS with access to the Internet...this enables you to find your Mac using iCloud. Thus, this should NOT be disabled.

I recently upgraded to Lion and am using the current version. I cannot remove the guest account from the startup screen. I disabled it in the system pref but it still appears.

I downloaded and installed the most recent verison of Lion for my iMac. After doing so I noticed that my start up screen now has a "guest" account. I went into settings and disabled the "guest" account. Still, the startup sceen displays a "guest" account and allows one to start the computer in a "safari" only mode.
How do I removed the "guest" account from the start up screen and disable access via the "guest" account?

Have a read here OS X 10.7.2 with iCloud showing Guest user account at log-in
To get rid of it, uncheck "Find my Mac" in System Peferences -> iCloud
Stefan

Automatically remove expired guest accounts

I have WCS 6.0 and under Administration -Settings - Guest User Settings, there is an option to automatically remove expired accounts. I checked that box and clicked saved.
I had some expired accounts but those were not removed. Do i need to restart the WCS service for that to work or does it only take effect with new accounts created after saving that setting?
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Try this with accounts created AFTER saving this setting, that should make a difference.
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Hi. I am running wcs 4.1.91.0. I'm using Lobby Ambassoador functionality. I've found that if you create a guest acount using wcs with a limited lifetime, then after that lifetime period, you cannot delete the guest account from wcs as the account has already expired on the wlc. You get no error message in wcs -it just shows a JavaVoid error message at the bottom of the browser. I'm assuming wcs is trying to delete the account from the wlc but cant because the account is no longer on the wlc. Has this been resolved in a later version of wcs yet??

Here is the URL Cisco Guest Access Using the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller follow the configuration guide it will help you manage the guest account in WLC :
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/technology/guest_access/technical/reference/4.1/GAccess_41.html#wp1001402

Does any one know how to remove the guest account from the start up screen

ihave had this problem for a while now and still can't make it go away i have be in system prefreces and accounts but i still can't make it out

To expand a bit on that answer, Find My Mac allows you to locate, lock or erase your MBP remotely if it gets lost or stolen. But that is only possible if the person who finds it is able to log in somehow and get on a network. Thus the guest account being turned on as long as Find My Mac is enabled in System Preferences -> iCloud. Note that the guest account does not make your computer any more insecure, but if it really bothers you, you'll have to turn off Find My Mac. And note that if your computer is stolen while that setting is off, there's nothing you can do about it other than call the police.

Is there any way to add a password to the guest account?

We use a computer reservation system for public computers in my library. I would love to have the functionality of the guest account so the account is wiped after every log out.
The problem with our reservation system is, it requires an account with a password for the system to work properly. So for the past year, I have been running a standard user account with 3rd party software to lock out the ability to permently change anything on the system. The problem with this is, it retains any changes users make until the system is restarted, not logged out. So by the end of a 12 hour day the machine can be pretty screwed up if it hasn't been restarted at some point.
The Guest Account is exactly what I want, but if I can't find a way to add a password to it there is no way for my reservation system to use it.

You could write a shell script to do that and run it on logout via a logout hook:
http://seeskill.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/mac-os-x-login-and-logout-scripts-demys tified/
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSyste mStartup/Chapters/CustomLogin.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000172i-SW10-BAJCGEGG
I can't be of much help writing such a script. Apple also cautions against such scripts since due to the fact that they run as root they're a security risk. Apple recommends using launchd, something which I have no experience with, but I found a presentation on the basics here that might help:
http://www.macos.utah.edu/documentation/operating_systems/launchd.html
I don't know of any other way to remove user documents and settings automatically on logout.
Regards.

ISE 1.3 Guest account Activate

Hi,
Has anyone worked with ISE 1.3 with creating guest accounts using sponsor portal.?.
Our issue is that whenever we create new guest account using sponsor portal the account is shown as "Created" not as "Active". When we try to use the same account in guest portal it gives authentication failed and shows as "account is not yet active" in ISE report. (please see the attached file)
Can anyone tell how to make new account active or why it shown as "created" not as "active"?
thanks in advance.

Hi there,
I am having the exact same problem with my ISE 1.3 deployment after upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3 .
The issue seems to relate to timezones (as a lot of ISE problems do!) .
The issue relates to settings under Guest Access -> Settings ->Guest Locations and SSID . You should have defined a location local to you, for me it is 'Southampton, Europe/ London', the San Jose entry cannot be removed.
There should be an option to select timezone in the Sponsor Portal but it is missing so defaults to 'San Jose'. This causes a time-zone mis-match between between the account itself and the SSID location.
However if you create a guest account using the admin GUI: Guest Access -> Manage Accounts, although you still cannot select the timezone it will choose the correct one for the SSID and you will then be able to use the account via the Guest Portal. I don't know what would happen if you had a second SSID and alternative location, it would probably be totally broken!
I have raised this issue with TAC three weeks ago, and had a webex with the Business Unit last week. They saw the issue and took some debug logs, all very helpful people, but the problem is still unresolved.
cheers,
Seb.

Guest Account Bug Resets User Accounts and Deletes Files on Snow Leopard

Hi Everyone
Well basically, I hadn't used my Guest Account since upgrading to snow leopard, and I accidentaly clicked it instead of my user account this morning, to find that when I logged into my normal account ALL my files, settings, mail etc had been reset.
So I'm posting this to let people know, (and hopefully Apple if they don't know about this) what's happening.
Here's the post I sent to Apple Feedback:
Hi,
Well basically, I upgraded to snow leopard recently, everything was working fine, I've upgraded to 10.6.1 and have all the latest software updates etc, so anyway this morning I turned my computer on and accidentaly clicked on the Guest Account on the login screen instead of my normal one, so it started trying to load the guest account (which I hadn't loaded since before the upgrade).
So I wait about two minutes, and nothing atall happens apart from it loading on the logon page, so I pressed Enter to return me to the login window.
So once I was returned I logged on as my normal user, to find my Desktop reset, my Dock reset, my Documents, Music and Photos reset and all my software reset.
So I restarted my computer and logged on again, it was exactly the same, everything gone. At which point I looked in the Users folder to find that my User profile had been removed and replaced with a fresh one with the same name. So I then spent half an hour restoring everything from my Time Machine backup.
I hope Apple are aware of this issue and would greatly appreciate to hear back on the status of what's happening about it, as it doesn't seem to be an isolated issue it's been happening to other people over the last month.
Here's a few posts from other people who've had this problem, and an article on the CNET site MacFixIt about the bug:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10123656#10123656
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2157518&start=15&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2171494&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2142272&start=30&tstart=0
Reports on the Internet:
http://9to5mac.com/snowleopards_eatusers
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10346974-263.htmll?tag=mncol;txt
To clarify, I have an iMac (aluminium 20" one), with a 2.4ghz processor and 3GB of Ram, please update me on anything that's going on with this issue as I don't want it to continue happening to others who might not have backups,
Thanks,
Daniel.
So if anybody else expieriences this issue your not alone, there's a couple of other posts from people who've had problems above in the middle of my feedback letter. Unfortunately in my case it deleted my Home folder and replaced it with a new one, so if this happens to you then your only option is to restore from a backup. You can attempt to use file recovery software if you don't have one, but I haven't tried this and don't know how well it would work.
Hope I've helped clarify things for anybody who this has happened to,
Daniel.
Message was edited by: dbferrari

Maybe it will be usefull but last days I tried to login as *Guest* (because I didn't want to logout as my user). In *system preferences* I allowed guest login, then I fast switched to *Guest Account*, do some changes in profile like mouse movement and so on, then I correctly logged out and logged once more to my account. Now I affraid off rebooting macbook (I always hybernate system with changed default settings which store memory into HDD) until the fix will be released. Probably the data was not removed, because I was logged in as me and */Users/$USER* was still in use. Now I am wondering if I can reboot safelly macbook without losing my data..
For backup do I need to use some command for backuping home to windows machine through *SMB*? because unix like systems have links and so on.. (in *AIX OS* I have to use "*rsync*" command, which copy whole data exactly as it is stored on filesystem - if there is link it will copy only that link, not file which is linked...)

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If I set up the guest account is there anyway to hide everything except the browser on the dock?

Remove everything and place the account under Parental controls that only allows the user to use the web browser

Adobe Reader 8.1.2 Quits on Admin Account OK on Guest Account Leopard

I have a new Aluminum Imac that when opening Adobe reader 8.1.2 on the admin account it quits unexpectedly. When I log into the guest account it opens no problem. I have tried removing some adobe.plist files and at least got to an opening screen before it quit. Where do I go from here to troubleshoot this?

I got it. What I did is click on the Reader icon and did get info on both admin user accounts. At the bottom is permission the read write for different users. I put them all at read figuring with Adobe Reader I can't change anything anyway. I then went to Macintosh HD library/preferences and trashed anything adobe the same for both admin user libraries and anything else I could find. I then rebooted and it now works. Not sure if everything I did is necessary but the important thing is it works.

Folders marked for privacy in spotlight viewable in guest account

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This certainly has to be a bug, isn't it?

Well, I've set the permissions of these folders and their enclosed contents to Drop Box for Staff and No Access for Everyone. And as I've said, I added them to the privacy list in Spotlight, to exclude them from search results. Yes, they are persistent. When I log out and back in, they're still on the list and unsearchable.
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I would like to customize the desktop and dock for the Guest account. I want a true Guest Account that will erase files when they log out.

I'd like to go back to the original question. I don't see an answer here yet.
We just set up a new iMac in the front office and need the "Guest" account for those who float through the office. Unfortunately, the way it currently works, each time they open Microsoft Word they are asked to register since the user files are deleted.
I would also like to update the dock removing things they won't use like "Mail" and adding Pages and other applications they will use.
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