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# 1  
Old 02-24-2009
Question Change Long User Name THrough The Terminal
Hello,

I was wondering how to change a user's Long Name through the terminal. I am writing a shell script to change some settings back to the default, and could not find how to do this (or even if you can do this).

I do not want to use applescript.
# 2  
Old 02-24-2009
Here is my script so far:


sudo su
*ADMIN PASSWORD*
##Logs In As Root
passwd student
student
student
##Changes The Password For User "student" to student
rm -rf /Users/student/Desktop/*.*
##Erases Everything Off Desktop
rm -rf /Users/student/Documents/*.*
##Erases Everything Out Of Documents
# 3  
Old 02-24-2009
A coworker of mine found the solution:

Code:
sudo dscl . -change /users/shortname "old long name" "new long name"

Problem Solved.
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