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By: Mondo Mac Tips at Literal Barrage

Mondo Mac Tips at Literal Barrage — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 02:21:52 +0000

[...] As I've previously discussed on this blog, I've really been enjoying my experiences with Mac OS X. One of the truly nice things about the OS is that, due to the fact that it is a true UNIX, all of the UNIX toolchains are available for it. Additionally, Apple makes its own development tools available for free, which means that anyone can author software for OS X using well-documented, well-tested and well-understood tools and procedures. [...]

By: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:44:17 +0000

[...] Barrage] ReadPermalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments [3] Reader Comments(Page 1 of 1)1. Scott and I were talking about this lastnight. What I've seen is that users' Keychains can sometimes no longer work after changing the short name and to fix the problem, you often have to delete the Keychains in question and allow them to be regenerated.Posted at 12:34 PM ET on Nov 15, 2005 by Damien Barrett STAFF2. Thanks so much for this! Through a strange and complex twist of events, my account ended up being created by Apple, so my short username is my first and last name. The only problem is, that's not very short at all. I'd been toying with the idea of changing it, but it wasn't worth the effort until now.Posted at 12:38 PM ET on Nov 15, 2005 by stridey 0 stars3. Anyone do this yet? I'm a wimp, so I want to hear about others being successful before jumping myself. Come on, where are the adventurous souls?Posted at 1:12 PM ET on Nov 15, 2005 by Freeheel 0 stars [...]

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:51:09 +0000

That works as long as you have a separate Admin account to log in with. If, as in my case, you misnamed your Admin account in the first place, the procedure you outline is a bit difficult to accomplish. It’s much UNIX-ier, though. *grin*

Nice Gravatar, by the way. Ahhh, the memories “333″ brings back…

By: Carrick

Carrick — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:26:14 +0000

Another trick is to be logged in on an account with administrator permissions, then

1) create a new user account in Preferences

2) delete the newly created home directory

3) rename the “offending” directory name (which is the same as the “short” name) .. from a Terminal window, this would look like:

sudo mv ~luser ~user

where you replace “luser” is the erroneous user name and “user” is the desired user name. This is much faster than copying the files…

3) run this command from terminal:

sudo chown -R user ~user

4) delete the old account in Preferences.

Hope this helps.

By: Philly Future - Philadelphia Blogs - The News YOU Write

Philly Future - Philadelphia Blogs - The News YOU Write — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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