Rename my login name and home directory name

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:01:40PM +0300, OOzy Pal wrote:
> I managed to rename my loggin name and I need to rename my home
> directory. I was afraid to do
> 
> mv xyz abc
> 
> and I mess up everything.

You can do that, if you know what you're doing.  Since you managed to
change your login name, then you know about /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow,
/etc/group and /etc/gshadow.  If you rename your home directory, make
sure that you update /etc/passwd accordingly.

Marius Gedminas
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