change home directory name

[Michael Havens]

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> 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> 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> 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> 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>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> 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>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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