[ale] changing username

[Richard Bronosky]

I would think that the way to go is creating a new user and copying
everything (including .* files and dirs) from your home to his.
However, I don't install GUI environments on any of my machines so
I'll let someone else chime in on if everything is kept in you home
dir.

I would also suggest that you make a kickstart disk and a backup of
you home folder. It is inevitable that you will want to
recover/restore at some point.

On 4/9/09, Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I will be giving a computer to one of my nephews and it is exactly how I
> want it to be, except I want it to be his username.  I haven't found any
> real hits just yet and was hoping someone could point me in the right
> direction.
>
> If I can't change just the username is there an easy way to "clone" the
> account and settings (shortcuts, media, themes) for additional users?
>
> Laptop is running Debian with LXDE and Compiz-Fusion.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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