{"id":131,"date":"2020-05-12T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T03:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/?p=131"},"modified":"2020-05-12T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T03:41:08","slug":"changing-username-on-centos-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Changing username on centos linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let’s say I have the username of tom and my main group is also tom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some reason I now need my username to be jerry and in the group jerry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sudo usermod -l jerry tom\n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
That changed the username from tom to jerry. But jerry is still in the group tom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo groupmod -n jerry tom\n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Okay.  Now jerry is in the group jerry. But all jerry’s files are still in \/home\/tom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo usermod -m -d \/home\/jerry jerry\n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Voila! Now tom is jerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let’s say I have the username of tom and my main group is also tom. For some reason I now need my username to be jerry and in the group jerry. That changed the username from tom to jerry. But jerry is still in the group tom. Okay. Now jerry is in the group jerry. … Continue reading Changing username on centos linux<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,32,26,31],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-centos","tag-groups","tag-linux","tag-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}