Re: Renaming a user

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

Manuel Camacho wrote:
> 
> 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.

Make sure that the old UID is used and you can avoid any file
copying altogether.  It's easy to lose the right ownership
doing things like that, so I try to avoid it.  It is important
to remember that file ownership is by UID, not username.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com