change home directory name
Michael Butash
michael at butash.net
Mon Apr 2 14:23:22 MST 2012
Add some? :)
Actually it sounds like it's "copying, then deleting" (safe) vs.
"moving", so if you're short diskspace, you'll need to just move it,
change your /etc/passwd and group file for the user/uid, and chown -r
the directory to the new username/uid.
Matrix's method presumes you have temp disk space, but looks like you're
doing it the hard way manipulating ownerships and such from root user.
-mb
On 04/02/2012 02:09 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> hmmmmm. It just ran out of disk space. Any suggestions on what I can do
> about that?
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> thanks for explainig the rationale of putting the old user name last.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Matrix Mole <matrixm at gmail.com
> <mailto:matrixm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> If the account you are trying to change is your current account,
> it may be easier to login as root to make the changes (just to
> prevent any existing programs in memory trying to use the old
> username/directory). I'd also use the command as follows:
>
> usermod -l <newuser> -md <newuser> <olduser>
>
> since an existing username needs to be at the end (so the
> command knows what user account to modify).
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I'll use usermod then. Thanks for letting me know about it.
> so I think this is the proper syntax. Will this work?
>
> sudo usermod -l <olduser> <newuser> -dm <newuser>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Matrix Mole
> <matrixm at gmail.com <mailto:matrixm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> If you are changing your username, there is flags to the
> usermod command that can help change the home directory.
> The -d flag to usermod will update /etc/passwd with the
> users home directory, and the -m flag will move the old
> directory to the new name. I'm pretty sure that usermod
> will also take care of the ownership issues as well.
> Check 'man usermod' for more details on this. If you
> don't use the usermod command, then there is also the
> ownership issue to consider with changing home
> directory. The chown command can help make sure the
> directory is owned by the correct user with 'chown -R
> {username} [homedir]' command.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Michael Havens
> <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks. Is that the only thing I have to worry about?
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Patricia Wilson
> <wilson.pr.gm at gmail.com
> <mailto:wilson.pr.gm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Note that your home directory name appears in
> the /etc/passwd file so the system knows where
> you "live" when you login. If you change the
> name of that directory you need to change your
> entry in the passwd file to match.
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Michael Havens
> <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> How would I accomplish this? Is it as easy
> as just moving the old name to the new name;
> or should I do a 'find -r / <old
> directory>|mv - <newdirectory'?
>
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