Create a new account with whatever settings your sister wants. Be sure to give her administrative authority. Assuming you have saved everything you want from the iBook, have her sign on and delete your old account. Porcupines are peaceful creatures but God still saw fit to give them quills On Jan 28, 2004, at 6:49, Boris Jotic wrote: > U can change the Name and the Password in System Pref->Users, but I > dont > think u can change the short User name... > > Boris >> Dear Listers, >> >> Situation: I have an iBook which I plan to offer to my sister. This >> ice >> IBook's already running 10.3.2 (aka Panther). >> Problem: My sister doesn't want my administrator/short name and >> password. >> Question: How do I change its administrator/short name and password >> without >> having to reinstall the whole system again?