[X4U] Changing User name

Neil Laubenthal neil at laubenthal.net
Wed Apr 26 16:53:29 PDT 2006


At 16:45 -0400  on 4/26/06, Mark Des Cotes wrote:


>Hi all,
>
>We've had a "relocation" of staff causing one of our Macs (OS 
>10.3.9) to inherit a new User. I know I could easily create a new 
>User account on that machine but the current User account is set up 
>exactly how we want it. The only thing I would like to change is the 
>User name. Are there any issues doing this? What do I have to do?
>
>Mark Des Cotes
>Systems Manager/Graphic Designer
>
>Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd.
>3308 Second Street East
>Cornwall Ontario Canada  K6H 6J8
>T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106,  F (613) 932-1052
>www.astroprinting.com
>
Check on www.MacOSXPowerTools.com  . . .there's a script there to 
change the short user name. The long user name is easy; just change 
it in Accounts. The script is called ChangeShortName.




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