[ale] changing username

[Robert Coggins]

This is what I suggest as well.  Although I would add one more thing.
You can grep the home directory for the old user name to ensure nothing
had been using the hard coded name.

I recently did this for one of my boxes and everything is working quite
well.

Rob

Richard Bronosky wrote:
> 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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