Once upon a time, I heard Kent West say > Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > > Once upon a time, I heard Brian say > > > > > Cameron Matheson said: > > > > > > >Hey, > > > > > > > >I want to change my user name from fatmike to cmatheson. Is this > > > >possible? > > > > I think the easierway is edit your /etc/password and change username and > > home directory feild, you should find it easily :) > > > > Then rename your old home dir to new homedir, that's it. > > Will the file ownership/permissions remain intact? I suspect they will, > thinking that the permissions are based on the user ID instead of the > username, but I'm not sure.
Yes, owner/group are based on uid/gid not name :) -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Australian National University | | got sparetime ? | | http://kenji.anu.edu.au/ | | Debian GNU/Linux GPG key on request | `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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