user shortname change?

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andehlu

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Howdy
Does anyone know how to change the shortname of a user? In the accounts panel i cannot select the shortname area.... I did it half assed not realizing what it was for on install and now my home dir is named all messed.
Thanks.
 
Create a new account. Make it admin. Then after backing up your important files, delete the older account.
 
Or, if you really just want to change the short name, you can just follow THIS SIMPLE PROCEDURE which is what Apple recommends. There is a simpler process, but this is more fun :) If you do this, be careful to follow all the steps (39!) from beginning to end.
 
Ditto on follow all the steps. I really screwed up my files and it took a long time to get things right again for me.
 
Wow its too bad i missed this reply in time...i was messing around with the net info manager trying to do this and somehow changed my user to a standard user from admin. Ive been trying to enable root but I cant...any suggestions?
 
Umm sorry man, Im a complete mac newb. One of the win crossovers... I only have one user and its a standard user. Does this make sense? <img src="http://www.enterthechapel.com/user.jpg">
 
That is strange for sure. I looked in Netinfo and notice no difference between an admin and a standard account other than the user id. Mine is 501 on the admin acct. In netinfo mgr try /groups/admin. In there you should see root and a username.
 
yes i know whats happening but i have no idea how to fix it. I messed with a few thgings in the net info manager for my user trying to change the shortname, which i managed to do somehow. So now in the group admin i see root, and the old user. If i try to change account info thru the accounts manager I cant authenticate. I cant even su root!!!! Man oh man.
 
man i screwed this up once myself - i changed my short name manually somehow and i couldn't log on as my normal user anymore, all my preferences and files were gone, it was kinda scary.

i logged in as a root user and changed my name back to what it was manually again (i think in the get info box) and logged off, restarted and everything was cool again, but my advice is:

DO IT HOW APPLE RECOMMENDS or you might have to do some freaky stuff to get it right again.

i'm a total newbie, so i was schocked that i got it fixed myself, but be careful
 
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