Migration of home directory

[satimis]

Hi folks,

Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit

I ran following command to change username;

# usermod -c "Real name" -l new_username old_username

but forgot adding -m option to move the contents of the old home directory to the new home directory.

Therefore;
# ls /home
old_user_directory

Please advise how to fix it. /home is on partition /dev/sda3 NOT on root directory

TIA

B.R.
satimis

 

[Ijack]

I'm sure you can make the necessary changes manually but, how about renaming the account again, this time using the -m switch?

 

[randomizer]

You could also just rename the home directory appropriately and then recursively chown the contents:

chown -R new_username:new_username_group /home/new_user_dir

 

[Ijack]

You could also just rename the home directory appropriately and then recursively chown the contents:

chown -R new_username:new_username_group /home/new_user_dir

But the location of the home directory is also located in the passwd file (or its equivalent), so it's not quite that simple. Also, the chown shouldn't be necessary - as I understand it it's only the name that has changed not the UID.

 

[randomizer]

Ah of course, I forgot about /etc/passwd.