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Sharepoint site showing system account instead of my username on the top right corner.

When you login with your username & password into sharepoint (2007) site, it displays as a "System Account" instead of your username or full name on the top right corner of the website. What ever changes you make inside the site, for example upload a file, post a comment, sharepoint marks it as a System account instead of your name.


To fix this, you must run the following commands:

stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -identitytype NetworkService

followed by:

iisreset


Because your account was used to create the SharePoint databases, your account is marked as a System Account. You need to run the STSADM command "updatefarmcredentials" and set it to an account like the NetworkService account to prevent this from occurring.

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