Thanks, Theresa. Worked pretty well for me, too. There's no need to
do the killall as that works off the uid. So, to tighten it up a bit:
$ sudo usermod -l bar -d /home/bar -m -c "bar" foo
$ sudo groupmod -n bar foo
Or in script form:
change_handle () {
old=$1
new=$2
sudo usermod -l $new -d /home/$new -m -c "$new" $old
sudo groupmod -n $new $old
sudo passwd -e $new
}
Caveat emptor as it does no sanity checks. But the jist is there.
I suspect these commands will not work for those programs that may do
additional checks, e.g. sshd or sudo. Or if authentication is handles
by a different mechanism, e.g. NIS or LDAP.
Regards,
- Robert
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote:
> google-fu: "ubuntu how to change userid" : first result:
>
> killall -u old
> id old
> usermod -l new old
> groupmod -n new old
> usermod -d /home/new -m new
> usermod -c “New Real Name” new
> id new
>
> (from http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-change-rename-user-name-id/ )
>
> I just tested it with Ubuntu 810 in a virtual box; the stuff on the
> desktop was there afterward, etc. Oh, goes without saying (but
> sometimes I am like Pooh, with Very Little Brain) that you do not want
> to be logged in as "old" when you are going through the above steps.
>
> Theresa
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