RE: [Fed-Talk] Changing the short name for an Administrator on OSX server
RE: [Fed-Talk] Changing the short name for an Administrator on OSX server
- Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] Changing the short name for an Administrator on OSX server
- From: "Diemer, Jacob M Contr AFRL/RZAS" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:39:33 -0400
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Changing the short name for an Administrator on OSX server
There’s a utility out there called
ChangeShortName that does all this for you in a GUI. I used it the other day
for a non-admin, but I assume it would work for an admin as well. Unfortunately,
the website for is blocked here, so I can’t check for sure.
-Jacob
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[mailto:fed-talk-bounces+jacob.diemer=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Shawn A. Geddis
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
1:18 PM
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Changing
the short name for an Administrator on OSX server
On Oct 30, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
Hi:
The GUI interface on OS X server (10.4.10) does not appear to allow you to
change the short name for the Admin user. I have reasons to want to do
this. Is there clean way to do this under OS X?
This kind of information is readily found in the Knowledge Base.
Your question is readily addressed with:
Server Admin 10.4 Help
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Changing a User's Short
Name
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** Heed
the warning in the KBase article above **:
WARNING: Changing a user's first short name can have
unexpected and undesirable consequences. Other services use each user's first
short name as a unique and persistent identifier. For example, changing a
user's first short name does not rename the user's home directory. The user has
the same home directory (even though its name doesn't match the user's new
first short name) unless the user happens to access his or her home directory
through a group membership.
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Shawn Geddis Security Consulting Engineer Apple Enterprise
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