change home directory name
Michael Havens
bmike1 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 14:34:44 MST 2012
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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