My first Mac-hack: rename my username

Whee! I've done my first bit of system administration, namely on myself (or rather, on my laptop). There was a typo in my username.

To remedy, you can't simply go and rename yourself. But it wasn't a lot harder than that, since my account has admin rights.

• Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Users and groups
• Unlock
• Create a new user by clicking the +
• Give the user admin rights
• Log off
• Log in as your newly created admin user
• Open a Terminal (F4 -> type "term")
• cd ..
• mv wrongname username
• As above, open open and unlock Users and groups
• Rename your old account's full name
• Create a new user with your name and the right username 
• Delete your old account
• Log off and log in as yourself
• Delete the temporary admin account

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