How do I rename an account?

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How do I rename an account?
Christopher Brooks, 2 Nov 1999

In general, it is best not to try to rename accounts, but occaisionally, it is necessary. The best thing to do is to:

Go to the People page and find out what groups the old account was in. Make a note of them, you will need them when adding the new account.
Remove the old account from any groups.
Disable the old account via https://www.gigascale.org/options/power/password
Create the new account in gsrc workgroup and send an invite to the user.
Once the user has logged in as their new account, then go to each of the groups that the old account was in and add them. You may need to use the power override to do this.

Note that if you have the old and new accounts active at the same time, then you may run into problems because the workgroup invitation combo box lists the user by real name, not by account name, and if the user has the same name for both accounts, then you may have a hard time differentiating between the old and new account.