Short name on the account set-up

how do i change the short name for the administrator account?

Use this software... http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23494
Jim
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Accidentally deleted my short name from the accounts tab. Now I go back and make changes.

I'm running 10.6.8
I was trying to change the terminal name from nicholas-shook's-macbook-pro:~ nicholasshook$ to something shorter. I started by changing my computer name via System Pref >> Sharing, and tried to change my shortname via System Pref >> Accounts. I deleted the shortname after right-clicking my name on the left panel thinking that it would get rid of it in the terminal.
Now when I try to make changes to the Accounts tab it asks me to "type an administrator's name and password to allow System Preferences to make changes" instead of just asking for the password. I've tried nicholasshook and Nicholas Shook (what it shows up as when I come back to my computer after its been asleep).
Please help me get back to the shortname so I can not make it empty.
Thanks,

That isn't working for me. The space is BLANK. No pins, no x's. Just blank. That's what I'm trying to restore.

How can I change the "short name" of my account?

I want to change the short name of my account because when my dad bought this computer for me he set up the account with his name as the short name and it has been bothering me ever since.
When I go to system preferences and then accounts my account is listed and when I click on it under password I am able to change my name, but not my short name because it is greyed out and cannot be clicked. Is there any way to change the short name on my account? I can't even delete my account and make a new one because the account delete button is greyed out when I click on my account.
Also, I went to my home folder and changed that from my dad's name to my name. This has reset every program on my computer to default settings! For example when I open my Safari browser a message pops up saying a keychain cannot be found to store Safari and asks me if I want to restore default settings.
So pretty much I've tried to change the short name on my administrative account, I reset everything to default settings and my short name is still my father's name. Can anyone help me out here?

Try this.
Or you could just create a new account and delete the old one.

Changing 'short name' in Admin account?

I'm using a computer at work that was previously used and administered by a former employee who has since left the company. I need everything to maintain exactly the same settings since I need to work on this computer in the same fashion as the former user. I was provided with the old password and I've changed the account (the only one on the machine) to now have my user ID and password etc. but the 'short name' is still this other person's name. I don't see any way to change this short of creating a new admin account and then deleting the old one, but then I loose all the settings, prefs etc. from the existing account which I really can't do since I need all of those settings to get my work done on this machine.
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- Bernhard

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Changing short name- misplaced original account information

I was attempting to change the short name on my user account with two methods- the terminal command (didn't prompt me for my password after changing the name) and the root account option. When I try to log back into my old user account it takes it back to the bare start up-when you start a new account I assume because I didn't reset the home folder. I seem to have misplaced the file that kept all the orgininal account information. I can search in the root account to access all the files, but I don't know how I can set up my original user account. In essence I want to compile all of the searchable data that I have in the root account back into one file that will allow me to set up my original account, but with a new user name.

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ICHAT shows an IM name that is the sender that is not the name on the account. How do I change the name of the sender? Make sense?

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Hi,
Can I check I have Understood this correctly ?
You are saying if You send the IM the Buddy sees the name "John Doe" instead of "Jim Nabors" ?
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Short name in the email. Tcode SOST

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DO WE REQUIRE THE ANY SETTING WITH THE SOST .
Edited by: Matt on Apr 25, 2011 8:34 AM

Hi,
The email will have the sender, as the logged user name with which the email was triggered and being send. I hope in your scenario, you have been logged into the system with the wrong user and triggered the PO email which resulted in displaying the wrong user in SOST.
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