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To get some information about your user type at the terminal:
Where "(user)" (without double-quotation marks) is the handle of your regular user's account. It's not very useful.
You could give the "passwd" command by itself to change the password for your regular user's account. It should report that you're changing the password for the account you're on currently, which is the one for your regular user. First type in the password you don't want anymore and press
ENTER
. Then type the password you want from that point forward for your account and press
ENTER
. Then type and enter it again so it becomes official.
To change the "pen" name of your user then at the terminal you could type:
Then type and enter your password. Then it will launch Nano and will give you the chance to edit a system file.
Be careful! Go to the last line of the file. See if you recognize what is the handle of your regular user, and what is the "pen" name. Where the "pen" name is between colons, just change it to what you want. Press
CTRL+O
and
ENTER
, then
CTRL+X
and
ENTER
, and you're done.