change home directory name

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

The best way to safely accomplish this kind of tasks is by booting from a 
live CD.  At any rate, you better don't be logged-in anywhere as the user 
that you are changing. 

With that said, all you have to do is to rename the directory and change 
it's ownership. 

mv /old/path /new/path
chown -R username. /new/path
By leaving the 'username.' without group, 'chown' will default to the user's 
main group. 

You'll be able to infer those steps after reading the LFS book.
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Michael Havens writes: 

> I just reinstalled my system with the new user name. How would I change to
> the old users directory? Would I rsync the old directory to the new
> directory because /etc passwd is configured to use the new directory?  or
> is there something else I need to worry about. Hmmmmmmm.... come to think
> of it now it would probably be easy to change the directory name with a
> simple mv command.