<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kathryn Antoinette Seth wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>After buying & receiving my clamshell, I was so eager to use & set it up to receive and send email, that I plumb forgot to change the other person's ( short name ), so what it looks like now is: My name _ _ _ _ & so on / the faded out ( short name ) of the other person...</DIV><DIV>only administrators can change an accounts name, & even they Can't change an accounts short name after the account has been created.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>The easiest (and recommended) way to handle this situation is:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1) Create a new user account (with the right short name & everything) using System Preferences -> Accounts</DIV><DIV>2) Copy everything over from the old account to the new one</DIV><DIV>3) Delete the old account</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I believe that it's possible to directly change a short name, but it's a lot more hassle than it's worth.</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Larry Kollar<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>k<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>o<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>r<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>@<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>t<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>e<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>n<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>e<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>t</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking."</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">-- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>