Re: Renaming a user

[mcamacho habitat co cr (Manuel Camacho)]

As root, you can create a new user, copy all files and directories from the old
user to the new user, and delete the old one. But you may have problems with
the groups.

-Manuel.

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Morten Primdahl wrote:
> Hi
> 
> What's the easiest way to rename a user? Including changing
> home dir name etc. There's a production running under the
> user name 'beta' and we'd like to move that to 'somethingelse'.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Morten
> 
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