change my /home/oldname to /home/newname

[Nils Kassube]

Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> > Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> :
> >> - 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
> >
> >You forgot to make the new user the owner of the new home:
> When using command-line 'adduser' it's automatic
> When using the GUI tool, it's also automatic

Right, but after creating the new user you renamed the home/new-user to 
/home/new-user-home. After that you copied /home/current-user to 
/home/new-user including ownership (-a) of the old user, i.e. the old 
user is owner of the new user's home.

> >> - log out
> >> - log in as the new user
> >
> >And then you will probably find out that many applications use the
> >old home when they use an absolute path e.g. in their config files.
> 
> Bad software, change software.

:)


Nils