Users, Accounts and You!
by Josh Wisenbaker, Head of Engineering
As we have been pushing to the initial 1.0 release of NoMAD Login AD a surprising topic
has come up quite a bit. Many admins are asking what the differences are between the different types of user accounts on macOS. By account type, we aren’t talking about the difference between an admin and user, but between local, network, or mobile. All of these account types have existed on macOS for a long time, but there are still many nuances that can trip you up at first.
The NoMAD product line knows how to deal with these account types in order to keep things moving along in your deployment. In light of some of the confusion that is out there about what makes each account type unique, we’ve prepared a quick primer on them. Each of these sections describes the different sort of user accounts that you can have on macOS and features that are unique to each of them.