Setting a username different from the home directory

[pamoroso]

My home directory on Linux is /home/paolo and I have (ADDVARS (INITIALSLST ("paolo" "Paolo" "PA"))) in my Medley greetfile.

To change the username to "amoroso" to match my user in the Dodo settings, so that it is provided as a default by networking features, I changed the above expression to (ADDVARS (INITIALSLST ("amoroso" "Paolo" "PA"))). I also tried adding (SETUSERNAME "amoroso") to the greetfile. However, when I MAKEFILE a file the initials are set to amoroso instead of PA as I'd like, or the "edited" comment is missing altogether.

How can I change the username to amoroso while making sure the edited comment is added with the initials PA?

[pamoroso]

The value of my INITIALSLST is:

5_ INITIALSLST
(("paolo" "Paolo" "PA") (PAOLO NIL NIL))

[nbriggs]

After a little investigation -- you can (SETPASSWORD '|NS::| "Amoroso:") (note the vertical bar escapes and the double colon) and the first time you are prompted to log in to an XNS server it will present Amoroso: as the default user name.

An alternative is that you can add "Paolo" as an alias for "Amoroso" in the Dodo user settings chs-database/u~amoroso.properties -- at the end: aliases = paolo and then it will happily accept paolo as a login name for you.

[pamoroso]

Adding (SETPASSWORD '|NS::| "Amoroso:") to the greetfile leads to an authentication error when launching Lafite which doesn't display its login dialog. Removing the colon from "Amoroso:" doesn't help.

[nbriggs]

Hmm... I wouldn't have expected it to do that. You could actually give it your password in the (SETPASSWORD ...), which should be a password you NEVER use anywhere else. Or, log in to an XNS file server before starting Lafite. Or, go with the alias "paolo" added to your clearinghouse entry, and just log in with the default user name.

[pamoroso]

Adding the paolo alias to the Clearinghouse user settings works fine.