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