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Is it possible to change administrator/username on a G5?
Hi, all.
I am hoping to delete all references to the original user name on my G5. I have created a new account and have given it administrator privileges. I then copied all the existing files from the old account into the new one.
Can I now change or delete the short name of the original user without creating disarray, confusion and apocalyptic terror?
Many Thanks!
John
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4 Replies
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As long as you have logged in as the new user and everything works then yes you can, but to be safe I always have two admin accounts so that I have a backup. Delete the account from System prefs and it will ask you if you want to save a disk image of it which is handy in case you find later you left something behind.
Aloha,
-Chris
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Thanks, Chris. Tried that, but when I logged on as the new user, none of the preferences I had earlier copied into the new user folder were there. So it was coming up as a virgin machine, so to speak. The old user account is still fine however, and the folders there are all still intact.
Have any suggestions?
Thanks again!
J
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Most likely the problem is that you don’t have rights to the files. You need to change the owner over to you.
once you copy over the prefs to your folder:
in terminal navigate to the users folder
cd /users
sudo chown -R
(ex: chown -R johndoe johndoe)
sudo means do it with elevated permissions
chown is change owner
-R means recursive to all the foldersHope that makes sense, let me know if not.
Aloha,
-Chris
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Thanks very much for the info, Chris. I think I’m going to wait until I have my current hard drive safely cloned elsewhere before I perform these commands. (If I change the ownership, I am concerned that the original set of user data might be nullified.)
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