change my /home/oldname to /home/newname
Mihamina Rakotomandimby
mihamina at gulfsat.mg
Thu May 20 14:38:11 UTC 2010
> Lucian Goron <luciangoron at gmail.com> :
>I read some threads on this topic but none of them worked
>and the last one almost broke my system, thanks for backups
>
>How can I change / rename my username ?
>but without breaking anything.
- Create the new user (the way you want)
- copy (with cp and the right options). I would use:
$ sudo mv /home/new-user /home/new-user-home
$ sudo cp -ar /home/current-user /home/new-user
- log out
- log in as the new user
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