How to modify the command line text showing in Mac terminal

Question

My Macbook Pro shows a wired string ("ryoitasuou") at terminal like below picture.

Does any know how to remove or modify it ?

I already deleted the "ryoitasuou" folder in /Users folder , and modify username in "bash_profile" , but these steps does not help.

p.s. I bought this Macbook Pro 2019 from Amazon , and the wired name is already exist after I finished user setup at the first time I boot up this laptop. This is really annoying every time I use Terminal.

It sounds like you need to change the account name; see Apple's support document HT201548: "Change the name of your macOS user account and home folder". Be sure to create a second admin account to do the change from. Changing the account name will remove your admin rights, and without a second admin account to re-grant them, getting them back is a pain (see "Changing my administrator user's username has removed privileges"). — Gordon Davisson, Aug 03 '20 at 23:56
Thanks, I solved this problem by creating another user and delete the original one , I have not idea why I can not change the user name of my first user account. — Henry Lu, Aug 05 '20 at 02:39

fd0 · Answer 1 · 2020-08-03T20:13:58.167

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Bash performs a lookup in /etc/passwd, well on macOS it looks in opendirectory, for the users HOME folder at every invocation. Try the following-

 dscl . -read /Users/$(id -un) NFSHomeDirectory RecordName

You will need to change the NFSHomeDirectory value and more than likely the RecordName in opendirectory.

edited Aug 03 '20 at 20:13

answered Aug 03 '20 at 20:00

fd0

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At least a HINT of how to change that value would be an appropriate part of the solution – Steve Chambers Aug 03 '20 at 20:03

How to modify the command line text showing in Mac terminal

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