User Account: change name

[René L. Reingard]

Am Thu, 26 May 2005 11:21:21 -0700 schrieb Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net>:


> That should be:  sudo chown -R max.max /home/max, which will change
> files in subdirectories.

> You could also edit /etc/password, /etc/shadow and /etc/groups to change
> the name, keeping the UID and GID.  Then you wouldn't need to chown.

Hi Bob,
Hi Paul,
Hi Martin,
Hi Dennis,

I had to take a deep breath, guys!
i did the chown well: $ sudo chown -R max:max /home/max
no error on that.
but the final result was:
the login went well. the start of Gnome went slowly, halted at  
Windowsmanager Metacity for a while, halted at Panel for a while
and finaly when that disappeared and Gnome should have come up there was  
for at least 4 minutes nothing than an empty screen.

so i went back, and was happy the CHOWN did its work again for the old  
user.

what now??
René




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