Minor problem with Fedora 19

[Bill Oliver]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Frank McCormick wrote:

> 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 ???
>
> Thanks
>

I do it the lazy way.

1) backup the user directory
2) delete the user using userdel -r
3) create the acct you want using useradd -m
4) add whatever stuff you want from the backup to the new directory, use
chmod and chgrp as appropriate

billo