Re: Setting up a prev. owned iBook Was: Re: Questions: OS Upgrades, browser/Mail/News choice

[Al Poulin]

Yes indeed, you can change short names.  Apple has a technical article 
for this, #106824.  The MacAddict magazine, October '04 issue carried 
the same info.  Also, there is something you can download from 
VersionTracker called ChangeShortName, but read the disclaimers first, 
something about leaving the old Home Page visible.

On Jan 17, 2005, Nancy Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, you can change user short names, but you have to let someone
do it who really knows what they're doing.  The tech guy at my school
did it for me when I bought my used Pismo.
On Jan 17, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Aase Marit Waage wrote:
Hi Ben,
The Password field in the accounts preferences pane *always* displays
the same number of dots, regardless of password length or whether
there's one there or not. It's an added security measure.
Oooh... :) I just assumed it had to mean that some password had been
entered, like it usually has been with other things... I guess that is
what they want you to think...
You can't really change the account to your name, at least not fully
-- short user names cannot be changed once set.
Too bad... It would make a lot of things easier. iTunes is set so that
you have to enter his user name to access it. I guess it can be moved
to my user account, but... The obvious easy solution would be to just
change the account name and all would be OK, if it weren't for the
other challenges, that is...
Al Poulin
Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God, 
proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.

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