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Re: Rename Gnome users

heiowge — Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:07 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:07 pm

Ram wrote:

Wouldn't the easy option have been to create an account for Sam to customise himself.

I tried that. The options weren't identical...

Re: Rename Gnome users

Ram — Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:31 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:31 pm

Wouldn't the easy option have been to create an account for Sam to customise himself.

Re: Rename Gnome users

towy71 — Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:53 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:53 pm

heiowge wrote:

I just renamed the user account.

so have you fixed it now??

Re: Rename Gnome users

heiowge — Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:01 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:01 pm

I just renamed the user account.

Re: Rename Gnome users

nelz — Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:19 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:19 pm

What did you rename? changing the name and path in /etc/passwd and renaming the home directory should be enough.

Rename Gnome users

heiowge — Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:45 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:45 pm

My daughter (zoe) has an old laptop that she's not using. It's using Mint 11 and my son's desktop has packed up.

Rather than deleting her user and messing about setting up permissions or doing a reinstall, I renamed her user (zoe) to the new username (sam).

Problem is, it's still all called zoe's home and so on. Is there an easy way to change it all without losing the new wallpaper, icons etc?