Re: Changing user name

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote:

> 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.

Will the file ownership/permissions remain intact? I suspect they will,
thinking that the permissions are based on the user ID instead of the
username, but I'm not sure.