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Three ways to change the short username in Leopard

A while ago I made a typo when creating my short username in a fresh Mac OS X install, I figured it wasn’t a big deal and that I could change it easily in the User accounts system preference pane, but boy was I wrong. Unfortunately, changing your short username is not a matter of typing a new name in a field, but thankfully Macworld magazine has a fantastic write up on three ways to change the short username in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

The first tip, involving the creation of an alias by accessing an ‘Advanced Options’ area within the Accounts preference pane, is pretty nifty. You can access this area by doing the following:

Step 1): Unlock the Accounts preference pane by clicking on the lock icon
Step 2): Right click (or Control click) on the name of an account in the list and choose “Advanced Options” from the resulting menu.

So that’s where you create an alias and do some other fancy things, but this isn’t really a solution to the short username problem I had. So what else can we do? Read the Macworld article for more:

Macworld: Change the short username in Leopard

Digg!

Comments:

Comments: 2

Comment from buy celebrex
Time: January 26, 2009, 2:29 am

Pretty nice site, wants to see much more on it! :)

Comment from Cherooo
Time: January 30, 2009, 12:51 pm

hello,

I also had the same problem I try to follow your steps but I have not! I did not really lucky.
thank you for your articles

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