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    Help! Change the short user name?

    I think adambyte did things the right way and I did not. When changing the dhort name, I did not log in as root first, so I was unable to set myself as an administrator. I tried to reinstall the OS but it prompted me to enter an admin's name and password in order to run the CD - again no...
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    Help! Change the short user name?

    Thanks! but... :( Things are in really bad shape here. After I changed my short name I lost my administrator status and I now have no administrators on the system. This means that I am unable to domain->security->enable root access. In fact I'm unable to do much of anything. Above I explained...
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    Help! Change the short user name?

    ack. I needed to change my short name and I followed the instructions above - using the teinfo manager utility I changed the name in the four places in the users file. then I tried to change the name of my user directory but was not allowed to, saying I didn't have privlages I logged out...
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