Creating a new short name

I understand that changing the shortsname is a bad idea. Will I end up with lots of permission problems if I:
- created a new admin account
- copy all files from old short name account into new one
- delete old account

Rob J wrote:
I understand that changing the shortsname is a bad idea.
Not really. It is only a bad idea if you go in an start re-naming files.
Here is a utility to change your short name. I haven't tried it. Apple also provides some very complicated instructions to do the same thing.
Actually, in addition to being complicated, Apple's instructions are just plain wrong. Do a good backup, then try that Dan Frakes program. It it were me, I would just log in as a different admin account, change my short name in NetInfo, rename my home directory, log in, and clean up any poorly written programs that happen to break.

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