[ale] ubuntu create another user and remove old user

[David Tomaschik]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
<savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
> So David
>
>
>     2 points:
>     1) You couldn't do this as devpid.  usermod will not modify the username
>     of a user who is currently logged in.
>
>
> You are right, I could not change.  So what are my options.
>
>     Create a user call junkuser, login as that user,
>     sudo su - from that, and run the commands to convert devpid to devuser
>     sudor remove junk user, is that right ?
>
>     2) This turns devpid INTO devuser, rather than creating a new account
>     for devuser to give the user a fresh start.
>
>     If I wanted to create  a fresh user itself then how would I do that

As I stated last night:
1) Create a new user.
2) Add user to 'admin' group.
3) Login as new user.
4) Delete old user.


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