So I've encountered a bizarre issue after finally updating to macOS Sonoma, in which one of my four standard user accounts (on top of one admin account) seems to be getting confused for the guest user.
The account is listed correctly under Users & Groups as a standard user, correct name etc., but it's absent from the fast user switching menu. If I instead go to the login window, I see the guest user option where this user's name should be, even though I have the guest user completely disabled (I don't want no stinking guests using my precious).
Very strange, as I can't imagine why this would happen; my accounts have user IDs in the 500 range, the affected account's is 504, I would expect the guest user to be outside the normal user account numbering range (e.g- very high or very low) to avoid a collision.
I'd appreciate any suggestions for how I might most easily fix this.
Only option I can think of myself is to remove the account while leaving the folder in place, then hope I can just create a new account with the same short name, and fix up the permissions myself, but that feels like something I shouldn't need to do. Complete mystery how this might have happened though!
The account is listed correctly under Users & Groups as a standard user, correct name etc., but it's absent from the fast user switching menu. If I instead go to the login window, I see the guest user option where this user's name should be, even though I have the guest user completely disabled (I don't want no stinking guests using my precious).
Very strange, as I can't imagine why this would happen; my accounts have user IDs in the 500 range, the affected account's is 504, I would expect the guest user to be outside the normal user account numbering range (e.g- very high or very low) to avoid a collision.
I'd appreciate any suggestions for how I might most easily fix this.
Only option I can think of myself is to remove the account while leaving the folder in place, then hope I can just create a new account with the same short name, and fix up the permissions myself, but that feels like something I shouldn't need to do. Complete mystery how this might have happened though!
