rename home directory

[Saikat Saha]

Hi,

i want to rename "/Home/username" this folder only.

~Saikat

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Alexander Skwar (ML)
<alexanders.mailinglists+nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am 12.03.2012 14:21, schrieb Saikat Saha:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anybody tell me how to rename Home Directory in Ubuntu 11.04?
>
>
> mv
> or: usermod
>
> But I would not recommend to do this. There might be just so many
> applications installed with user configuration files in $HOME, which
> have a full pathname in some configuration setting.
>
> If you'd now change the $HOME directory for "user1" from /home/user1
> to /home/1-user, these applications might have problems, as they
> reference "/home/user1".
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
> Alexander
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