Apple Mac OS X Server (version 10.2.3 or later) - Manual (Page 137)

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You can use Workgroup Manager to edit the user name of an account stored in a directory
domain residing on Mac OS X Server or in a non-Apple LDAPv3 directory domain, or to
review the user name in any directory domain accessible from the server you are using.
To work with the user name using Workgroup Manager:
1 In Workgroup Manager, open the account you want to work with if it is not already open.
To open an account, click the Accounts button, then use the At pop-up menu to open the
directory domain where the user’s account resides. To change the name, click the lock to be
authenticated. Select the user in the user list.
2 In the Name field on the Basic tab, review or edit the user name. Initially, the value of user
name is “Untitled .” After changing the name, Workgroup Manager does
not check to verify that the user name is unique.
Avoid assigning the same name to more than one user. Workgroup Manager doesn’t let you
assign the same name to different users in any particular domain or in any domain in the
search path of the server you’re using, but has no way of detecting whether duplicates might
exist in other domains.
Defining Short Names
A short name is an abbreviated name for a user. Users can log in using the short name or the
user name associated with their accounts. The short name is used by Mac OS X for home
directories and groups:
m When Mac OS X automatically creates a user’s local or network AFP home directory, it
names the directory after the user’s short name. See “Administering Home Directories”
on page 152 for more information about home directories.
m When Mac OS X checks to see whether a user belongs to a group authorized to access a
particular file, it uses short names to find UIDs of group members. See “Avoiding
Duplicate Short Names” on page 140 for an example.
You can have as many as 16 short names associated with a user account. The first short name
is the name used for home directories and group membership lists.
A short user name can contain as many as 255 Roman characters. However, for clients using
Mac OS X version 10.1.5 and earlier, the first short user name must be 8 characters or fewer.
Use only these characters for the first short user name (subsequent short names can contain
any Roman character):
m a through z
m A through Z
m 0 through 9
m _ (underscore)
m - (hyphen)
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