Am 09.07.2013 01:58, schrieb Frank McCormick: > I installed Fedora 19 recently but wasn't paying attention when setting up > the username > portion of the installation. As a result I had an abbreviated form of my full > name as a user name. > > So I used the system utility to change is to my preferred username. > Problem is my home directory is still named my old username and at lightdm > logon I have > to type in my new username and password ( which is the same). The logon > screen doesn't offer > me my new name, but still offers the old name. Anyway to fix ???
* log out * CTRL+ALT+F2 * login as root in the terminal * mv /home/olderuser /home/newuser * nano /etc/passwd * edit the line with your user, looks like below * systemctl restart lightdm.service if you don't have "nano" installed use vi or whatever console editor or "yum install nano" __________________________ column 5 is the real name column 6 the homedir column 7 the edfault shell [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/passwd | grep harry harry:x:500:501:Reindl Harald:/home/harry:/usr/bin/bash
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