change home directory name
Lisa Kachold
lisakachold at obnosis.com
Tue Apr 3 07:53:40 MST 2012
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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