Hi,
I am new to Macs and hoping someone can help me with this question. I just purchased, and am very happy with, a used Powerbook running OS X Leopard. One thing is puzzling me so far. Right now there's one user account, which is an admin account, which I've renamed "User1". I can control this account (set the name, set the password), through System Preferences|Accounts. But it seems that "under the hood" as it were, the BSD (?) user is named something else, let's call it joeschmo. So when I go to Finder I find myself at Powerbook G4 --> Users --> joeschmo, which is where all my stuff gets stored. The reason I'm calling this the "BSD under the hood user" is that the terminal prompt begins $joeschmo, and I can see that all my stuff in stored in /Users/joeschmo.
So my question has two parts. First, for superficial reasons, I'd like to be able to change the name "joeschmo" to something else, ideally matching the user name in Accounts. Second, I want to understand what's going on and how OS X works. I'm familiar with WIndows and Linux and right now it seems to me I've got both a Windows-style logon name and a Linux-style user...
Thanks!
I am new to Macs and hoping someone can help me with this question. I just purchased, and am very happy with, a used Powerbook running OS X Leopard. One thing is puzzling me so far. Right now there's one user account, which is an admin account, which I've renamed "User1". I can control this account (set the name, set the password), through System Preferences|Accounts. But it seems that "under the hood" as it were, the BSD (?) user is named something else, let's call it joeschmo. So when I go to Finder I find myself at Powerbook G4 --> Users --> joeschmo, which is where all my stuff gets stored. The reason I'm calling this the "BSD under the hood user" is that the terminal prompt begins $joeschmo, and I can see that all my stuff in stored in /Users/joeschmo.
So my question has two parts. First, for superficial reasons, I'd like to be able to change the name "joeschmo" to something else, ideally matching the user name in Accounts. Second, I want to understand what's going on and how OS X works. I'm familiar with WIndows and Linux and right now it seems to me I've got both a Windows-style logon name and a Linux-style user...
Thanks!