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@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@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@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@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@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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