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Re: Short name change

Subject: Re: Short name change
From: Michael Dinsmore <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 11:43:21 -0500

T'ain't easy.

Essentially, you have to create a new user with the shortname that you like, and then chown everything from the oldUser to newUser.

You might be able to do this in NetInfo, by changing all instances of the oldUser to newUser, but I can't recall if that gums up things or not.

On Thursday, April 01, 2004, at 10:46AM, Chip Scheide <email@hidden> wrote:

>how do I go about changing the short name on an account?
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>thanks
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>Chip Scheide
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>Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
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