[ale] ubuntu create another user and remove old user

[david at systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik)]

On 02/28/2011 08:15 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> Friends:
> 
> I have created a user called devpid and it is the only user account in
> Ubuntu 10.10.
> 
> I selected the autologin option for this user devpid and when I do sudo,
> the password used for this devpid user works.
> 
> Now I need to create user called just devuser instead of devpid.
> 
> I want to be able to make this new user devuser the only user and
> removed devpid.  Also I want to give devuser the rights to be sudo.
> 
> How do I do that in Ubuntu ?
> 
> -Narahari

Create the new user, add the user to the admin group, log in as that
user, delete the old user.

David