niutil question

[crash]

lets just say that i hypothetically wanted to change the long name of a user without using the GUI.... how does one use niutil to do this? i've read the man page, which is not so enlightening. anyone have any good resources to check?

thanks.

btw, i still haven't figured out my mystery crash. 10.1.5 didn't solve it.

 

[lethe]

this command will let you read the realname:

niutil -readprop . /users/[I]username[/I] realname

and this one will let you add info to your realname:

niutil -mergeprop . /users/[I]username[/I] realname [I]add_this_stuff[/I]

there doesn t seem to be a niutil command for simply overwriting, so you should use destroyprop followed by createprop.