After Migration Assistant my Admin name is not what it should be.

I have just purchased a new iMac and have run Migration Assistant to recover my old user data from Time Machine on an external hard drive.
No apparent problems until I go to do something which requires the Administrator's username/password.
The username it comes up with is not the correct one.
For example it defaults to "User Name" when it should be "username"
Is there a simple way of amending this so that I don't have to manually do it each time.
I currently have one profile on the new Mac but I did delete the one I originally created for the new Mac with the old profile from the old Mac. Have I just confused myself there?

What you did won't help you because your old account that you migrated is tied to your old username. You either need to re-migrate the old account without changing its name or you have to change the username of your current account back to the original username or you must change the ownership and permissions of everything in your migrated Home folder to the new one. So here you go for doing the latter:
1. Open the Terminal application in your Utlities folder.
2. At the prompt enter the following:
sudo chown -R yourusername:staff /Users/yourusername
Press RETURN. You will be asked to enter your admin password which will not be echoed. Substitute your actual new username for the two instances of "yourusername" in the above command line.

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I managed to find a solution
Here is the link:
http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/10/forgot-mac-password-how-to-reset-mac-password/
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It solved the problem.

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Did you use Setup Assistant when your new Mac first started up, or skip that, create a user account, then use the Migration Assistant app in your Applications/Utilties folder?
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Either way, it usually deletes a lot of old backups. We're hoping that will be fixed in Lion.
Once it's decide to make a new backup, there's no known way to prevent it.

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Hello,
How do I merge my user accounts after migration assistant from a time machine back up?

I wonder how to plan what account and rights to have where?
I had my old original account on my iMac, and then I "migrated" the data to a user account, in order to have some advantages with that setup. So everything worked approximately ok in this setup.
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Though oracle is tough secured one, I don't know exactly the complexity of using Oracle database. Using MySQL 4.1.22 in my website https://www.puntercalls.com/ . Though the site is based on providing share market tips, it deals with a huge amount of stock market data and in much more real time basis hand-to-hand with NSE and BSE info which means a tough security is the utmost demand of the time.
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Hi,
As you are really asking about how to setup and use securioty features in an Oracle database it woul db ebetter to raise the question in this forum -
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MBP 17" (running Leopard) logic board died
Retrieved hard drive from MBP and put in USB 2.0 caddy
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Used for a couple of days as main Administrator user, set up a VPN etc, every working fine.
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