Minor problem with Fedora 19

[Frank McCormick]

On 07/08/2013 08:37 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 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"
>


    Yup. Had to re-edit passwd and change my real name to 
my-almost-real-name
and then lightdm offers to let him login.

Teach me to doze while installing :)


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