I've been "abandoning" (as it were) my old username in favor of a "better" one (for some fuzzy value of better that probably only exists in my head).

In any case, I was able to easily change my username in the linode manager. The forum however seems to disallow username changes. Any chance of changing it in the forum as well?

Just sign up for a new forum account.

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Either provide enough details for people to help, or sit back and listen to the crickets chirp.
Security thru obscurity is a myth - and really really annoying.

For some reason I was assuming the two accounts were linked in some way, but if I'm thinking about some other service thusly configured, I'll just do that.