Re: Changing user name
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 03:01:58PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2000 07:56:24 CDT, Jesse Jacobsen writes:
> >The last time I changed my username, I just left my home directory the
> >way it was, to avoid the headache. The names don't *need* to be
> >identical. Works fine for me. Just make sure it's properly reflected
> >in /etc/passwd.
>
> or you just sym (or even hard) -link the old directory to the new one.
symlinking works fine, however directories cannot be hard linked.
(some versions of unix allowed the superuser to create hard links to
directories but it is a bad idea.) linux does not permit even the
superuser to create directory hard links.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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