change home directory name
Michael Havens
bmike1 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 09:47:53 MST 2012
yep.... it is all taken care of..... thanks.
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
> As root edit the /etc/passwd file for the line that says:
>
> lkachold:x:1000:1000:Lisa Kachold:/home/lkachold:/bin/bash
>
> Change the /home/directory link
>
> Be sure to change the directory permissions to be owned by the correct
> user.
>
> chown -R yourusername /home/directory
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> lovely..... because it ran out of space my old user can't log in to the
>> gui. I try logging in to a terminal as <new user> and it says:
>>
>> root at Michaels-PC:~# su bmike2
>> To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
>> See "man sudo_root" for details.
>> bash: bmike2/.bashrc: Permission denied
>> bmike2 at Michaels-PC:/root$
>>
>> I just looked at /home and it seems that what happened is it changed the
>> user name and barfed when it was coopying the files and so it left me with
>> the new user name and the old directory. So please..... how do I associate
>> the new user name with the old directory? Would I still use usermod
>> ..... Well, I figured I didn't have anything to lose by trying it and I
>> found out that didn't work. Because the user was changed while the previous
>> command was in process user bmike1 doesn't exist.... I bet I know what's
>> going on!everything is owned by user bmike1 (who doesn't exist anymore) so
>> when bmike2 tried to access .bashrc it said 'nope'. So I think I figured
>> out the problem! (this is exciting)(I'll be a regular computer wizard
>> soon!) If what I think is the problem is is correct the solution would be
>> 'find -r /home/bmike1 * | chown bmike2'. Would this work? Are there
>> programs not owned by the user in it's directory? What about them (if there
>> are)?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I guess I don't really need to change the directory's name. So I
>>> suppose just
>>>
>>> 'usermod -l <newuser> <old user>'
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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