User Account: change name

René L. Reingard reingard at hispeed.ch
Thu May 26 17:05:40 UTC 2005


Am Thu, 26 May 2005 17:31:29 +0200 schrieb Dennis Kaarsemaker  
<dennis at kaarsemaker.net>:

> On do, 2005-05-26 at 17:15 +0200, René L. Reingard wrote:
>
>> how can i change a users name?
>
> You can either manually edit /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group or
> create a new user and simply make the old homedir the homedir of the new
> user (you can rename it of course). In both cases make sure the user is
> not logged in. If the username is listed  in the sudoers file (or any
> other administrative file), you will need to change that too.

hmm, i did create a new user and made the home of the old user the home of  
the new user.
result: no login possible
error: ~/.xsession-errors / libgnomevfs-WARNING / unable to create  
~/.gnome2 directory: No Authority

what to say on that?
René


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