Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Make sure the user to be renamed is not logged in. Use mv /home/olduser /home/newuser.
Didn't work for me. The cp -a approach that I suggested worked fine, so I'm guessing that some symlinks were broken by the conventional move. Using cp -a also means that you can copy your own home space while you're logged in, which is convenient.
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
3 points, 1) If you are making the changes on a live multi-user unix box, you should always use lthe vipw and vigr utilities to change the passwd and group files
I wasn't, but it's a good point.
2) I don't think there is any need to copy the douglas file-set to fred unless you want douglas to remain a user after fred has taken over the files.
You're right, but I wanted to maintain the convention of my home space being in /home/username. No "need" to do the rename in the first place, of course - just straightening the doilies.
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