Once upon a time, I heard Brian say > Cameron Matheson said: > > >Hey, > > > >I want to change my user name from fatmike to cmatheson. Is this > >possible? I think the easierway is edit your /etc/password and change username and home directory feild, you should find it easily :) Then rename your old home dir to new homedir, that's it. > > > 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 -- ################################################## #Chanop Silpa-Anan # #gpg @ http://kenji.anu.edu.au/~chanop/chanop.asc# ##################################################
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