Re: Changing user name

[Brian <brianj@greenwood.net>]

Cameron Matheson said:

>Hey,
>
>I want to change my user name from fatmike to cmatheson.  Is this
>possible?


This won't be entirely fool-proof, but...

You might try adding the user cmatheson to your system (as root):

$ adduser cmatheson

Then (as root):

$ cd /home
$ mv fatmike cmatheson
$ chown -R cmatheson.cmatheson cmatheson
$ logout

Then, from that moment on, log in as cmatheson instead of fatmike.

When you're satisfied nothing else on the system is 'owned' by the user 
fatmike:

$ rmuser fatmike


Brian