On 05/17/2018 03:55 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
I'll probably go through the learning curve of changing the user name
one
of these days.)
Dick
'chown -R rsteff *' (or whatever files you want to change. Leave off
the
quotes, of course.
That part I know. What I've never looked into is how to change the name
of user dick to user rsteff, not from a file ownership perspective, but
from who is logged in. I'm sure I could create another user named
rsteff, but I don't think that's what I mean to do, either.
I'm familiar with chown -R because usually, when I copy files from
another machine, they end up being owned by nobody:nobody, although I
haven't ever used $USER.
This was between other, older Ubuntu implementations, not between this
18.04 installation and the 16.04 one.
Perhaps this is a ubuntu family 'feature?'. When the drive with the
dick-owned files is mounted run the above command via sudo. It may be
that
the permissions are too restricted for rsteff to change ownership of
files
owned by dick on that drive.
At this point, rsteff does not exist on ENU-1, so I'm not trying to
change the ownership of anything there.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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