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How do you edit a user? When you add one it asks you all that stuff like the first and last name. How do I edit that stuff? and is it possible to renmae my user w/out remaking it?
To rename a user. It is important that the user be NOT logged in.
usermod -l new_loginname old_loginname
then
usermod -dm new_loginname old_loginname
to create the new home directory for loginname and move the contents of the old home directory to the new one.
To update the users name which goes in the /etc/ password comments field
usermod -c "comments" username
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