Changing Terminal login name - 04/20/12 03:02 AM
From the Apple Store, I recently bought a refurbished mid-2011 Mac Mini running System 10.7.3. In order to transfer everything over from my four-year-old Mac Mini, Apple Support had me create a new account with a slightly different username on the new computer. (As it turned out, I wasn't able to use Migration Assistant because on four tries in a row it kept stopping the 70-gig transfer with 20 minutes remaining, so I used Time Machine and an external drive and finally got everything moved from the old computer to the new one.)
The old computer has the same username as the one I use where I often telnet to, and the account on new computer has the same name but with my middle initial added to it. I need to be able to telnet using my original username and can't figure out a way to do this with Terminal. All I've learned so far is that opening Terminal and then clicking on its icon in the dock while holding down the Control key brings up more options, but I still can't get it to change my log in name and remember it.
Apple Support offers no support for Terminal, and suggested that I consider following these instructions: How to change user account name or home directory name
All I'm trying to do here is set Terminal to log in with my old username. Is this really not possible without renaming my home directory?
The old computer has the same username as the one I use where I often telnet to, and the account on new computer has the same name but with my middle initial added to it. I need to be able to telnet using my original username and can't figure out a way to do this with Terminal. All I've learned so far is that opening Terminal and then clicking on its icon in the dock while holding down the Control key brings up more options, but I still can't get it to change my log in name and remember it.
Apple Support offers no support for Terminal, and suggested that I consider following these instructions: How to change user account name or home directory name
All I'm trying to do here is set Terminal to log in with my old username. Is this really not possible without renaming my home directory?