Renaming home folder
01-14-2020, 08:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-14-2020, 08:23 PM by inkslinger.)
(01-14-2020, 06:50 PM)evilbunny Wrote: What happens if you log into a console as root and then mv /home/rock /home/NEWUSERNAME and then edit passwd with the new path for the user?
After running that command, I got no messages (did it work? I don't know). Doing passwd NEWUSERNAME after that behaved as normal.
(01-14-2020, 08:17 PM)inkslinger Wrote:(01-14-2020, 06:50 PM)evilbunny Wrote: What happens if you log into a console as root and then mv /home/rock /home/NEWUSERNAME and then edit passwd with the new path for the user?
After running that command, I got no messages (did it work? I don't know). Doing passwd NEWUSERNAME after that behaved as normal.
Actually, now I can't log in to NEWUSER from the main login screen after rebooting. It just keeps reloading the login screen. So, uh, I guess that broke something.
I can log in as NEWUSER in the terminal, but can't get into the account from the main login screen.