Advanced Account Options

Advanced, Article, Leopard 10.5, Mac OS X, System Preferences | May 15th, 2008

There’s a great new feature in Leopard that allows for quick access to some of the user accounts advanced options.Take a peak at this quick tutorial to find out how you can access them through System Preferences.

Warning: Be very, very careful with what you do in this tutorial. Unwanted things could happen to your User account if you don’t know exactly what your doing. Have a backup before trying anything!

1. Open up the Accounts area in System Preferences and authenticate as an Administrator.
2. Once authenticated, right click (Control click) on the user you want to edit. Select “Advanced Options…” from the drop menu.
3. As you can now see there are several options you can edit. You have your standard User ID, Group ID and Short Name. Now you can even edit your Home Directory (make sure you have a backup!) and even apply Aliases to your user.

There you are, quick and easy to get to and edit, but it can be a very powerful tool if used correctly. Be careful with what you do here and ALWAYS make sure you have a backup of all important data before you try anything!