Re: usermod change username problem

[Giancarlo Pegoraro <genkipegoraro@gmail.com>]

Hi!

Il giorno dom, 12/04/2009 alle 10.57 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang ha scritto:
> Dear Debian community:
> I have got a specific problem using usermod to change my previous
> username olduser to newuser.
> 
> This is what I use:
> sudo usermod -l newuser -md  /home/newuser olduser[:w
> 
> newuser is the new login name and -md use /home/newuser as the new
> home directory and moves /home/olduser to /home/newuser.
> 
> The problem is after I did all this I found that in /home/newuser
> the file ownership becomes newuser:olduser. So the group
> ownership is still olduser. I know I can use chgrp to change
> group owner olduser to newuser. But I guess there are simpler ways to do
> that.
> 
> So basically I don't want to use olduser as my username again and want
> to change 'everything' associated with olduser to become newuser. such
> the home directory, spoolfile, cron, etc... and I dont want the olduser
> appear again.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
Wath's write in /etc/group?
If don't see the new user in same group of older user, you need put it
For esemple:

# adduser newuser cdrom <enter>
...
> -- 
> Zhengquan
> 
Ciao Genki ):o))

ps. I'm sorry for my english :)