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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:17:44 +1000
From: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan AT iinet DOT net DOT au>
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Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote:
> id -un, as it is the case with ssh. Did I miss something or renaming the
> account really doesn't do anything to solve the problem?

Did you rename the actual account using the Management Console (Control 
Panel->Administrative Accounts->Computer Management), or did you change the user 
name in User Accounts (Control Panel->User Accounts)?

The latter doesn't actually rename the account itself - it merely adds a "Full 
Name" setting which is displayed by the Windows GUI instead of the actual 
account name.

Things like the location of your home directory will still be governed by the 
actual user name.

I'm pretty sure the Management Console will "do the right thing" and actually 
change the account name properly, but I haven't tested it myself, as I'd prefer 
not to break anything (like, oh, say, Mozilla Foundation apps like Firefox and 
Thunderbird that don't use relative paths in their preference files) ;)

Cheers,
Nick.

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