How to change the user's name?

xpucto · 08-23-2007, 03:42 AM

Hi!

I use FC and would like to change the login's name of a user. How may I do this so that the user gets a new name and that he remains the owner of all his datas?

thanks.

reddazz · 08-23-2007, 03:53 AM

You can use the usermod command e.g.

Code:

#usermod -l newlogin oldlogin

You can then make the user the owner of the previous users data e.g.

Code:

#chown -R newlogin:somegroup /home/oldlogin

I personally would rename the old home directory to the same name as the users login name e.g.

Code:

#mv /home/oldlogin /home/newlogin

and then do

Code:

#chown -R newlogin:somegroup /home/newlogin

xpucto · 08-23-2007, 06:04 AM

Thank you very much. I'll try it. I'm quite surprised though that

Code:

usermod

doesn't change the ownership automatically. In the present case one could just create a new user and then use

Code:

chown

. The amout of work stays the same... except that you dpn't have to delete the old user if you use

Code:

usermod

.