By didit
I have changed my username from “user” to “newuser”, but when I checked, with :
ls -la
I got that some folder is used in my old name, like this.
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 16 01:35 ..
-rw------- 1 newuser user 2643 Sep 17 11:25 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 newuser user 220 Sep 16 01:06 .bash_logout
I want to change the “user” to “newuser”
Can I do it ?
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Hi,
you can rename the “user” to “newuser” with
usermod -l user -m -d /home/newuser newuser
-m for move-home, -d for new home directory path
If you want to rename the group “user” to “newuser”, you need this command
groupmod -n newuser user
-n for new-name
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