boy.... I nervously entered the command into the terminal and pressed enter expecting it to take at least a minute. Was I surprised when it completed in 3 seconds!
yeah Michael.... this is making me very uncomfortable. I'll live with the new user name and the old directory name. You know, I don't know why it ran out of space! I have .33GB of free space after the copy. What is that? 330MB? It shouldn't of run out of room! On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahhh shucks.... you guys already told me that was going to be a problem > and you gave me the solution I was asking for. Good thing I looked through > the posts again. Thanks..... it looks like I'm not as smart as I thought I > was. Me and my acursed memory! > > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> lovely..... because it ran out of space my old user can't log in to the >> gui. I try logging in to a terminal as <new user> and it says: >> >> root@Michaels-PC:~# su bmike2 >> To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>". >> See "man sudo_root" for details. >> bash: bmike2/.bashrc: Permission denied >> bmike2@Michaels-PC:/root$ >> >> I just looked at /home and it seems that what happened is it changed the >> user name and barfed when it was coopying the files and so it left me with >> the new user name and the old directory. So please..... how do I associate >> the new user name with the old directory? Would I still use usermod >> ..... Well, I figured I didn't have anything to lose by trying it and I >> found out that didn't work. Because the user was changed while the previous >> command was in process user bmike1 doesn't exist.... I bet I know what's >> going on!everything is owned by user bmike1 (who doesn't exist anymore) so >> when bmike2 tried to access .bashrc it said 'nope'. So I think I figured >> out the problem! (this is exciting)(I'll be a regular computer wizard >> soon!) If what I think is the problem is is correct the solution would be >> 'find -r /home/bmike1 * | chown bmike2'. Would this work? Are there >> programs not owned by the user in it's directory? What about them (if there >> are)? >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Well, I guess I don't really need to change the directory's name. So I >>> suppose just >>> >>> 'usermod -l <newuser> <old user>' >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Michael Butash <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Add some? :) >>>> >>>> Actually it sounds like it's "copying, then deleting" (safe) vs. >>>> "moving", so if you're short diskspace, you'll need to just move it, change >>>> your /etc/passwd and group file for the user/uid, and chown -r the >>>> directory to the new username/uid. >>>> >>>> Matrix's method presumes you have temp disk space, but looks like >>>> you're doing it the hard way manipulating ownerships and such from root >>>> user. >>>> >>>> -mb >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 04/02/2012 02:09 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >>>> >>>>> hmmmmm. It just ran out of disk space. Any suggestions on what I can do >>>>> about that? >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> thanks for explainig the rationale of putting the old user name >>>>> last. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Matrix Mole <[email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> If the account you are trying to change is your current account, >>>>> it may be easier to login as root to make the changes (just to >>>>> prevent any existing programs in memory trying to use the old >>>>> username/directory). I'd also use the command as follows: >>>>> >>>>> usermod -l <newuser> -md <newuser> <olduser> >>>>> >>>>> since an existing username needs to be at the end (so the >>>>> command knows what user account to modify). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Michael Havens < >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'll use usermod then. Thanks for letting me know about it. >>>>> so I think this is the proper syntax. Will this work? >>>>> >>>>> sudo usermod -l <olduser> <newuser> -dm <newuser> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Matrix Mole >>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> If you are changing your username, there is flags to the >>>>> usermod command that can help change the home directory. >>>>> The -d flag to usermod will update /etc/passwd with the >>>>> users home directory, and the -m flag will move the old >>>>> directory to the new name. I'm pretty sure that usermod >>>>> will also take care of the ownership issues as well. >>>>> Check 'man usermod' for more details on this. If you >>>>> don't use the usermod command, then there is also the >>>>> ownership issue to consider with changing home >>>>> directory. The chown command can help make sure the >>>>> directory is owned by the correct user with 'chown -R >>>>> {username} [homedir]' command. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Michael Havens >>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. Is that the only thing I have to worry >>>>> about? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Patricia Wilson >>>>> <[email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]**>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Note that your home directory name appears in >>>>> the /etc/passwd file so the system knows where >>>>> you "live" when you login. If you change the >>>>> name of that directory you need to change your >>>>> entry in the passwd file to match. >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Michael Havens >>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> How would I accomplish this? 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