On Jun 17, 2005, at 7:16 AM, George Hozendorf wrote:
How can I change the short name for an administrator account?
Haven't done it in a while; MacAddict had a tute on this some months
back, maybe like last december-ish? It may be on their web site.
Log in as a different admin user, fire up Netinfo Manager,
authenticate so you can edit it.
Now click on users, then the user you want to change.
Change the name and the name of the home directory save your changes.
Now Start terminal, cd to /Users and do the following:
sudo mv <old directory name> <new directory name>
sudo chown -R <new username> <new directory name>
The first command changes the home directory name to that of the new
user name, it should be the same as what you entered in Netinfo
manager, or else OS X creates a new directory for the person when
they log back in.
The second command changes ownership of all the files in the home
directory to the new username, and strictly speaking, shouldn't be
necessary, since the username is just a shorthand way of referring to
the numerical uid that Unix actually uses to take care of these
things, and we didn't change that.
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