Re: Rename my login name and home directory name
- From: Marius Gedminas <marius@xxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:41:23 +0300
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:01:40PM +0300, OOzy Pal wrote:
I managed to rename my loggin name and I need to rename my home
directory. I was afraid to do
mv xyz abc
and I mess up everything.
You can do that, if you know what you're doing. Since you managed to
change your login name, then you know about /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow,
/etc/group and /etc/gshadow. If you rename your home directory, make
sure that you update /etc/passwd accordingly.
Marius Gedminas
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