"netinfo' in 10.5

[Derek Chesterfield]

On 29 Oct 2007, at 17:56, Daniel M. Zimmerman wrote:
>
> --On 29 October 2007 10:51:30 -0700 "Justin C. Walker"  
> <justin at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone with access to 10.5 figured out what the "new netinfo"  
>> does
>> with its data?  I'd like to change a few details in my account, but I
>> haven't tracked down where the raw info is hiding.  The Directory  
>> apps in
>> Utilities don't seem to be forthcoming...
>
> Depending on what kind of details, just pull up "advanced options"  
> from the context menu for your user account in the Accounts  
> preference pane and change away... you can modify your UID and GID,  
> UNIX username, shell, home directory, and even your UUID and account  
> aliases that way. For any other info, you may be out of luck for the  
> time being.

The raw data is in /var/db.
It's a bit fiddly, and I certainly wouldn't recommend changing  
anything in the raw files.