How To Change Username in Linux

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Sunday, December 30, 2007

Use the command below as root after replacing new-login-name and old-login-name appropriately:
usermod -l new-login-name old-login-name

For NIS accounts don’t forget to run:
cd /var/yp
make

Discussion

wani
February 1, 2010: 10:52 pm

how to reset username in xammp on linux?


breen
January 25, 2010: 2:08 am

how to RESET USER NAME in Centos5?????


paula
October 6, 2009: 4:04 pm

can some tell me how i can change user in linux?i have tried all i can but i am still on root.

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