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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Hidding The Administrator Account in OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Post 302365593 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Tuesday 27th of October 2009 01:42:38 PM
Old 10-27-2009
No need to reimage.
To reverse the situation,
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users

This will make the account visible in the Accounts preference pane unless you had added the HiddenUsersList dealie someone else suggested, in which case:
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList

should do the trick.

Log in as a different admin (create one if necessary?) and control+click the previously hidden user icon in Accounts pref pane and change the user account ID, and/or home folder location.

If you change the uid, you will need to chown the home folder to the new uid by:
sudo chown <adminusername> /path/to/home/folder

If you changed the home folder location, you'll either move the old home folder to the new location, or allow the system to create a new home folder when you log in as the previously hidden admin user (if you created a second admin account that you no longer need, delete the second admin account through Accounts pref pane) and dispose of the old home folder.

I hope that's helpful. It can all be scripted also (though I doubt there would be much call for that).
 

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rmf

RMF(1)                                                               [nmh-1.5]                                                              RMF(1)

NAME

       rmf - remove an nmh folder

SYNOPSIS

       rmf [+folder] [-interactive | -nointeractive] [-version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

       Rmf removes all of the messages (files) within the specified (or default) folder, and then removes the folder (directory) itself.

       If  there  are  any  files  within the folder which are not a part of nmh, they will not be removed, and an error will be produced.  If the
       folder is given explicitly or the -nointeractive option is given, then the folder will be removed  without  confirmation.   Otherwise,  the
       user  will be asked for confirmation.  If rmf can't find the current folder, for some reason, the folder to be removed defaults to `+inbox'
       (unless overridden by user's profile entry "Inbox") with confirmation.

       If the folder being removed is a subfolder, the parent folder will become the new current folder, and rmf will produce  a  message  telling
       the user this has happened.  This provides an easy mechanism for selecting a set of messages, operating on the list, then removing the list
       and returning to the current folder from which the list was extracted.

       If rmf s used on a read-only folder, it will delete all the (private) sequences (i.e., "atr-seq-folder" entries) for this folder from  your
       context without affecting the folder itself.

       Rmf irreversibly deletes messages that don't have other links, so use it with caution.

FILES

       $HOME/.mh_profile          The user profile

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       Path:                To determine the user's nmh directory
       Current-Folder:      To find the default current folder
       Inbox:               To find the default inbox

SEE ALSO

       rmm(1)

DEFAULTS

       `+folder' defaults to the current folder, usually with confirmation
       `-interactive' if +folder' not given, `-nointeractive' otherwise

CONTEXT

       Rmf  will  set the current folder to the parent folder if a subfolder is removed; or if the current folder is removed, it will make "inbox"
       current.  Otherwise, it doesn't change the current folder or message.

BUGS

       Although intuitively one would suspect that rmf works recursively, it does not.  Hence if you have a sub-folder within a folder,  in  order
       to rmf the parent, you must first rmf each of the children.

MH.6.8                                                             11 June 2012                                                             RMF(1)
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