Minor problem with Fedora 19

[Frank McCormick]

On 07/08/2013 08:05 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> 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 at srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/passwd | grep harry
> harry:x:500:501:Reindl Harald:/home/harry:/usr/bin/bash
>

    Did all the above but lightdm still only offers a login under my 
real name.
I'd like to get it back to how it was earlier...that is my login name as my
username..not as my real name.

frank:x:1000:1000:Frank McCormick:/home/frank:/bin/bash

It appears Lightdm uses only the real name as a choice..anything else
and you have to type in in as "other"






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