Greetings,
On Jul 5, 2005, at 4:09 PM, Daniel wrote:
On Jul 5, 2005, at 19:06, George Hozendorf wrote:
On Jun 17, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
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.
I'm just now getting around to trying this. When I started Terminal
I saw nothing about, "cd to /Users." What do you mean by this?
Thanks,
George
George,
Bruce was using "cd" as a verb. :) It is a Unix command; when you
open Terminal, type:
cd /Users
The other commands would then be entered, substituting the old
directory name in place of "<old directory name>" and substituting the
new directory name in place of "<new directory name>."
Daniel
--
cd in unix means "Change Directory"
After you do the cd /users do a "pwd" (Print Working Directory) to make
sure that you are in the correct directory.
To see all of the files in that directory you can do a "ls (ls - list
directory contents) or a ls -l (-l option (The lowercase letter
``ell''.) List in long format. If the output is to a terminal, a total
sum for all the file sizes is output on a line before the long listing.
"mv" means "Move"
"chown - change file owner and group, and the option -R means, Change
the user ID and/or the group ID for the file hierarchies rooted in the
files instead of just the files themselves."
Best Regards,
Harry (*^_^*)
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