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Hi all. Hope someone can help, setup fedora and installed amahi, all went well but didn't realize the amahi username would have to different from my fedora user. So wanted to change the username to something else but couldn't, tried removing my amahi user (so I could create 1 with a different name to suit my purpose) and it didn't remove. Wanted to reinstall amahi but installer wouldn't run but I could access had setup, tried removing hda system on amahi site but there is no remove option.

So have reinstalled fedora and want to install amahi fresh but the amahi site still has my original hda system as running, how do I remove or when I install amahi again it will link to that system profile and all will be fine.

Any and all help will be great, new to Linux but a fast learner so any info on any aspect of this post will be helpful to me. Cheers

That's an easy one. As long as your setting have not changed you can reinstall. There is no need to delete the HDA profile on amahi.org. Ignore the fact that is says its running. That is because the last update it received from your system indicated it was running. That will disappear in a short time.

Go ahead and reinstall using the same install code. It should work fine. Also, the user name you specificy on first run with Fedora is the same user name you use to log in to the HDA dashboard. If you want to remove it, add a new one via the dashboard and make it admin. Then you can remove the initial one.

Hope that helps.

Cheers Bigfoot. Glad to hear it's a no brained, will start working on it in a few hours, will let you know how it goes. Why can't amahi just use my fedora user profile, instead of creating another. I can access amahi dash and setup from either account anyway. Is it a security thing?? Just curious...

It does use your Fedora user. Whatever the first user you created when installing Fedora 12 is the Amahi first user. New users created after that must be created using the Amahi Dashboard and not the linux tool otherwise things will not work correctly.

Mines a bit different, when I first ran amahi it did its first time username and password entry, the username was the same as mine but the first letter wasn't capital, I typed it as capital but on the second screen where password needed to be entered the username was greyed and I couldn't modifiy it. Now when I log into Fedora I have a username with 1st letter capital and another without (2 users effectively). Can I correct this or just deal with it.

Sorry I took a while to respond. Cheers for your help

You can correct it. I would add a second user and make them admin for Amahi. Then change the original user to non admin and delete it.

Then the new user should be the Fedora 12 user.

hhmmmm... Don't know what to say, it all makes sense and I did try it but amahi won't allow me to delete the 1st user. It dosen't quite make sense why amahi sets itself up this way. Example: Install fedora, create fedora user i.e. Bruno, finish install & enter fedora, install amahi, login in 1st page with fedora username & pass, second page fedora username is the same but not case sensative and greyed oout & unmodifiable and create password. When you start fedora you have 2 users 1 case sensitive and 1 not. I just wanted it all under my fedora case sensative username. do I have to resinstall with a non case-sensative username so amahi dosent create a second username??

This may sound trivial but I need to run a simple setup so while I'm trying to learn less things can confuse me and cost me time.

Cheers for all your help BF, you've been great. What'd you think. is amahi just not case-sensative, is that the simple solution??
Also when in hda cp tried creating new user (exact same as my fedora user and it dosen't ler me (username is not valid).