I just noticed that my user name is no longer then same,  As recently as a few months ago, my user name was bonaca, but now it is user182196.  Because I can't see my user name in the new topbar anymore, I'm not exactly sure when it was changed.  What is causing this and what should I do?
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This user is only displaying 56 rep.   But surely (s)he has much more than that.        The user has also never given out any bounties.  Also, badges are missing:
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This question has probably been asked before, but I just can't find my name. , but the reason that he didn't find his name is because he had less than 200 reputation on Stack Overflow, at the time.  Now, I currently have more than 200 reputation on Stack Overflow; but for some reason, I can't find my name in the .
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How do I change my logname?For e.g: xyz@ubuntu in the terminal how do I change xyz? I have tried this command   usermod -l *newname* -d /home/*newname* -m *oldname*   but that gave me an error user xyz is currently used by process PID  Command line solutions are appreciated.
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My home folder name (bob 1) does not match my account name (bob)", but I want it to.  How I got here:   Got a new Mac Didn't have the cables to transfer from previous Mac, so I just set up a simple test account with my same username "bob" Once I had the cables I created a new account called "Admin" and then logged in as that account and deleted my previous test user account "bob" in System Preferences. Migrated data from old Mac. This resulted in a new account called "bob" but the home folder for that account was named "bob 1". I discovered that my deletion of the test "bob" account had not actually deleted the home folder called "bob".   While logged in as "bob" (which might have been a bad idea) I tried deleting the home folder called "bob" (from terminal) and then editing in System Preferences to change my home folder to "bob". After restart it walked me through the full setup and I realized it created a NEW home folder called "bob", and my old folder was still called "bob 1", except now my account was not associated with that folder (with all my actual data). So... restored from Time Machine.  Now I'd like to do it right. So -    I have a working account named "bob" that is linked to home folder "bob 1". I don't want to rename the account, just rename the home folder and have my account properly link to it. I have an orphaned home directory named "bob" that I can delete via Terminal easily enough. How should I go about renaming the home folder and maintaining (or re-establishing) the association between my user account and the renamed home folder? Or should I just give up and live with "bob 1"...
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What is the reasoning behind the design decision to allow users to create a display name which matches another existing users exactly?    This is opposed to the common practice of enforcing unique user names, and I'd really like to learn something.
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Trying to find myself on the  I run into weird results. My display name is "Erwin Brandstetter", obviously.  If I type Erwin, I find myself in the search results. If I type Branst, I find myself in the search results. If I type Erwin B or even Erwin Brandstetter, I am not found.  Tried the same with Jon Skeet or Brad Larson and others, no problem. Works either way. Tried the same on a couple of SE sites. Same effects everywhere. Here on meta, too.  Seems broken to me?
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During Windows installation I accidentally typed an accented name for my user name and my profile name is named after it. I already renamed my user to not have an accented character, but the profile folder is an other topic.  Basically I want this because I have some applications what have a problem with the accented character.  Is there a way to rename it? I know I have to make a copy from my profile, but how can I perform a relocation itself? I wouldn't like touch any other profiles on the machine just mine.
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I don't understand this and I'm now worried as I have donated to a lot of servers and I don't want to lose this account. On the launcher it says my new username but when I log on it says "Account not Authenticated with minecraft.net" and "Non-Valid Username".  How can I regain the ability to use my account online?
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How do I change from user to superuser (root)? What command do I use in the Terminal to switch to root? I have tried --help but I get lost with all the listed help. I'm looking for a recent download/install so I can use it.
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Some time ago, when I installed Ubuntu, I chose a rather stupid username for my account that I do not want to use anymore. How do I change this (including the name of my home directory, and the name in the terminal) without losing settings for applications? How do I keep permissions and my keys for various authentification (e.g. email, SSH, GPG and more)? What settings could possibly get lost if I changed my username?
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When I installed the latest update of Ubuntu, I was asked for the username but I do not remember what my username is. How do I find out what my username is?
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I bought a Minecraft account for my little brother for Christmas, and I'd like to play with him on my server every now and then. If I log in while he's on, however, it kicks him off since we have the same username. Is there any way to change my username so that I can play with him, or anything I can do so that we can both play together using this account on my server?  I'm open to anything that could let us play, whether it be username changes, server property changes, etc.
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After I add a user using adduser, I can't see it via System > Administration > Users and Groups unless I log out and then log in again. Is that normal?  Also, can I set a newly added user as a sudoer or do I have to change that only after adding it? How can I do that via the shell?  Finally, can I delete the original user that was created upon initial installation of Ubuntu, or is this user somehow 'special'?
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On a whim the other day, I changed my meta name from Lord Torgamus to Popular Demand.  I just noticed that the old name has "stuck" to the author tag of ; everywhere else on meta, my new name displays as expected.  Is this a feature?  Is it a bug?  Mostly I'm just curious, as I can't think of a strong reason in favor of keeping this behavior or a strong reason for changing it.  A question somewhat like this has been raised before as , but the previous poster implied that the issue had something to do with migration, which my situation shows is not the case.
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I'm a Windows 7 user i used to change the username from the control panel. But I would like to know how to change it using the CLI not the GUI I have searched alot but didn't find the answer or it was unclear. A simple explanation to the code would be great
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I have an install of Windows 7 that I've already put a few days into. Today I realized I've made a mistake in the username and it's driving me nuts (my personal OCD).  While changing the physical folder name is perhaps possible, though quite involved, I do not want to open that can of worms.  What I want to do is simply change the username I give when the login prompt shows up. I thought it's possible by just renaming the user account in the User Accounts but that didn't work.  Is it possible to do then? Or is the only way to create another user and spend hour migrating everything I'd already customized to that user?
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I am new to Mac.  Recently I realized something for usernames.  When I type whoami in Terminal. It returns apple. However in System Preferences>Users and Groups" there is only one user and it says "sinan". (I am suspecting this could be the real name not the username)  Shouldn't be both the same?  Can I change the username in the terminal? Would that affect anything on the system (Lion)?