Hi

Im trying to change the name of a user on my rh9 machine from ali to darkness, and also move his files from /userhome/ali/ to /userhome/darkness

From the usermod manual id guess the command would be:

usermod ali -d /userhome/darkness -m -l darkess

but when i run that command i get:

usermod: user darkness does not exist

What else do i have to do to get this move done?

thanks
Simon

Rename /userhome/ali to /userhome/darkness (see info mv as I like to use Midnight Commander for file administration)
Alternate way to /copymove:
mkdir /userhome/darkness
cd /userhome/ali
tar cf - . | (cd /userhome/darkness && tar xBfp -)
Then:
useradd darkness
chown -R darkness.darkness /userhome/darkness
userdel ali

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