Re: Short name change

Subject: Re: Short name change
From: Jurvis LaSalle <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 19:30:54 -0500

On Apr 1, 2004, at 1:54 PM, Jeremiah Merkl wrote:

I was thinking about doing it that way, but word of caution -- this will probably break the group and shadow files...

-- Jeremiah Merkl
-- Department of Information Technology
-- University of Lethbridge

On 1-Apr-04, at 11:13 AM, Scott Hannahs wrote:

At 10:46 AM -0500 4/1/04, Chip Scheide wrote:
how do I go about changing the short name on an account?

user the Netinfo manager utility
users->oldusername
Unlock the database (click on lock in bottom left corner)
Select the "name" property in the lower windoe and just click on the value and edit it.

Done.

Now if you want to also change the home directory for that user, change that value as well and then rename the directory using the terminal:
% mv /Users/oldname /Users/newname

Not that complicated.

-Scott

I did the same thing as Scott suggests last week on an old iBook running Panther. I also made sure to change any other attributes that referenced the old user name (eg _writers_hint). It was a piece of cake. Concerning the top-poster's warning about breaking group and shadow files- I haven't a clue. This was an account created under Jaguar and hence still uses ;basic; for it's authentication_authority value (an unfortunate oversight in Apple's upgrade installer). Final word of warning- make sure you are NOT logged in as the user who's short name is to be changed!

Jurvis LaSalle
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