Hide the user from your login screen, PostgreSQL

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Hide the user from your login screen, PostgreSQL

Postby HondaKid » Wed Apr 29, 2015 1:04 am

Again having this issue, I'd like to know why but first:

I have PostgreSQL showing up on my login screen, how do I remove it and put a stop to this happening every few months?


Yosemite 10.10.4
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Re: Hide the user from your login screen, PostgreSQL

Postby WhiteRider » Wed Apr 29, 2015 2:54 am

This article describes how to do that.
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Re: Hide the user from your login screen, PostgreSQL

Postby HondaKid » Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:20 am

WhiteRider wrote:This article describes how to do that.


I've tried that twice now. How do I remove PokerTracker off my computer while keeping my player data and notes?
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Re: Hide the user from your login screen, PostgreSQL

Postby WhiteRider » Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:18 am

What problem are you having hiding the postgres user? Is there a particular part of that guide you have trouble with?

Your player data and notes are stored in a PostgreSQL database so won't be affected if you uninstall PT4 (as long as you don't uninstall PostgreSQL as well).
What are you trying to do? We may be able to offer an alternative approach.
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Re: Hide the user from your login screen, PostgreSQL

Postby HondaKid » Fri May 01, 2015 8:35 pm

WhiteRider wrote:What problem are you having hiding the postgres user? Is there a particular part of that guide you have trouble with?

Your player data and notes are stored in a PostgreSQL database so won't be affected if you uninstall PT4 (as long as you don't uninstall PostgreSQL as well).
What are you trying to do? We may be able to offer an alternative approach.


I've tried this eight times now without any success in removing PostgreSQL from the log-in page:

Hide a user account in OS X Yosemite
You can prevent a user account from appearing in the login window in OS X Yosemite by using these steps:.
1. Log in as an admin user.
2. Use this Terminal command, substituting the short account name name of the user you wish to hide for “hiddenuser”:
sudo dscl . create /Users/hiddenuser IsHidden 1


As this issue has occurred a few times since buying PT in 2010, I am leaning towards dropping PT totally and using another software package. I want nothing to do with PostgreSQL going forward.

If you have a better idea, I'm all ears.

Thanks.
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Re: Hide the user from your login screen, PostgreSQL

Postby Flag_Hippo » Sun May 03, 2015 6:01 am

HondaKid wrote:sudo dscl . create /Users/hiddenuser IsHidden 1


Just to confirm are you actually substituting the correct user in the command you quoted? You should be running that command as follows:

sudo dscl . create /Users/postgres IsHidden 1
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