[ale] changing username

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

vipw and vigroup, change the username and group name.

In the filesystem, it is UID and GID that are stored, not the name.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Preston Boyington
<preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I will be giving a computer to one of my nephews and it is exactly how I
> want it to be, except I want it to be his username. ?I haven't found any
> real hits just yet and was hoping someone could point me in the right
> direction.
>
> If I can't change just the username is there an easy way to "clone" the
> account and settings (shortcuts, media, themes) for additional users?
>
> Laptop is running Debian with LXDE and Compiz-Fusion.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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