Help With Naming On PC.....

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Mon Dec 17 09:48:42 UTC 2018


On 17/12/2018 09:34, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> Hello all. was wondering if someone could help me out with this issue I 
> have.
> 
> 
> I recently renamed my computer 

What did you do to rename it?

> and the user (for clarity I'll just use 
> the Flintstones!...) it went from "Fred Flintstone" (aka 
> "freddy at comp123") to "Wilma Flintstone" (aka "wilma") the problem 
> is.......when I open a terminal...I still see "freddy@" instead of 
> "wilma@" even though the username has been changed to "wilma". Can 
> someone please advice me was to what's wrong?...or how I can make the 
> change to have the terminal reflect the username change as well?

The command prompt *does* reflect the username, so if you're seeing 
something else, it means the change was not fully implemented.

What did you do to change the usernames?

///Peter




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