Changing main username/home/groups

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Sep 8 22:40:17 UTC 2010


On 09/08/2010 01:05 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:58 PM, NoOp <> wrote:
...
>> So here is my question; how should/could I have done all of this
>> easily/properly & particularly what did I miss for the GDM login name issue?
> 
> A WAG: without root enabled, sulogin must be use sudo behind the
> scenes, so I don't think that there is an alternative to enabling
> root.

I think you're right. I'll dig into it later when I have time & see if I
can figure it out.

> 
> An alternative would have been to create mavericktest and delete lucidtest.
> 

Yeah, but then I wouldn't have learned something :-) Besides, when doing
that I end up with issues when I forget to set the new one to User ID 1000.





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