[ale] changing username

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 13:54:10 EDT 2009


vipw and vigroup, change the username and group name.

In the filesystem, it is UID and GID that are stored, not the name.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:06 AM, 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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