On 05/17/2018 04:21 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
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.
Dick,
Perhaps this will help:
<https://askubuntu.com/questions/34074/how-do-i-change-my-username#34075>
For details, 'man usermod(8)':
NAME
usermod - modify a user account
SYNOPSIS
usermod [options] LOGIN
DESCRIPTION
The usermod command modifies the system account files to
reflect the
changes that are specified on the command line.
...
-l, --login NEW_LOGIN
The name of the user will be changed from LOGIN to NEW_LOGIN.
Nothing else is changed. In particular, the user's home
directory
or mail spool should probably be renamed manually to
reflect the
new login name.
HTH,
Thanks. That's probably what I need.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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