Determining User Type

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Say-Ho Tan updated March 18, 2010 at 5:08 PM


To determine what type of user account you have on your computer, open up a terminal window and type or paste in the following:

dscl . -readall /Users | grep -ic LocalCachedUser


Then hit "return".


This command will return a number to you. If that number is "0" then you have a Local account. If that number is anything else, you have a Mobile account.