{"id":652,"date":"2017-07-21T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jumpcloud.com\/engineering-blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2024-02-20T18:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T23:03:18","slug":"create-hidden-local-admin-account-mac-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/create-hidden-local-admin-account-mac-systems","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Hidden Local Admin on Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For various reasons, it can be beneficial to have the ability to assist a user without them seeing your admin account when they log in. With JumpCloud, this can be completed easily. The following guide demonstrates this, by showing how to hide a user account on the macOS login window directly from JumpCloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To begin this process, you will want to create a new local admin account on your machine. This can be done within the JumpCloud Admin Console by leveraging <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.jumpcloud.com\/s\/article\/Binding-Users-to-Devices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">system\/user binding<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Once you have created your new JumpCloud managed account, you are now ready to hide the account from your end-user\u2019s view. This can be achieved using JumpCloud\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/support\/get-started-commands\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commands feature<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For this example, we are going to write a short command that will hide the newly created JumpCloud admin from the login window. In addition, we will run a second command to hide the JumpCloud administrator\u2019s home directory from the Finder.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/User-Groups-Before-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/User-Groups-Before-1-300x217.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-656\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hiding a Local Admin Account<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following steps demonstrate how you can modify a JumpCloud Admin account on a machine to hide the account and the admin\u2019s home directory from the user.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create a new command. This can be done by going to the <\/span><b>Commands Tab<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and selecting the \u2018<\/span><b>+<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 icon in the upper right hand corner.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, select that this command is going to be run against Macs, and that we will be running this command as \u2018root\u2019. <\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, in the <\/span><b>Command<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> text field, you will want to enter the following:<br> <\/span> <pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">dscl . create \/Users\/JUMPCLOUD_ADMIN_USERNAME IsHidden 1; chflags hidden \/Users\/JUMPCLOUD_ADMIN_USERNAME<\/pre> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (It is important to note that you will want to change <code>JUMPCLOUD_ADMIN_USERNAME<\/code> to the actual username of the JumpCloud Admin that was provisioned to the system.) <\/span><\/p><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select the system(s) that have the administrative account present under the <\/span><b>Systems<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tab in the <\/span><b>Commands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> aside, and then select \u2018save command\u2019.<\/span> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you\u2019ve verified that the user is bound to the system, and that you\u2019ve successfully updated the command, you\u2019re ready to run it! This can be done by selecting \u2018run now\u2019. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the command has successfully run against your system(s), you will now see that the Admin account is not viewable in the login window list, or in the User\u2019s directory. However, you will still be able to sign into this account by entering in the admin\u2019s username at the login window to access the machine.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/User-Groups-After-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/User-Groups-After-1-300x216.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-654\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this complete, you can now assist your users on their machines without them being able to see your admin account. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:support@jumpcloud.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">support@jumpcloud.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With JumpCloud, you can create a hidden local admin account on a Mac system. 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