Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

Disable External Accounts

I’ve had a few people ask me in the past few days how to disable external accounts as part of their workflow for summer deployments.  While I think that external accounts are a great add to the admins toolkit I understand that it doesn’t fall into everyone’s logic that they have for their environment.  To disable them:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow EnableExternalAccounts -bool false