On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 01:48:50PM -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Beartooth wrote:
My wife's PC, running CentOS 6, suddenly quit connecting to the Net. Autodidact that I am, I fumbled with all the hard- and software I could find or dared try, but did no good.
Should we assume that you have another computer running, and that it's not having network issues? What did dmesg say, or is this all water under the bridge?
<snip> > They called to ask whether I wanted to specify a username & > password, or just use their default dummies. I chose the dummies -- and > realized in the night that I've never changed a username before.
Try this: do a useradd for her, and perhaps for you. Then, as root, move the files to her home directory, and then chown -R herusername:hergroup ~herhome/*
*THEN* userdel the dummy accounts.
That way, just in case they installed something you don't want (incl. malware), will be disabled. Then you can poke around in the dummy home, etc, and when you don't find anything you want, *then* rm -rf ~dummy
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I'm not aware of any hard requirement that one's home directory have the same name as the username.
therefore, I think you could create a new user for her, and in /etc/passwd enter the existing home folder as her home.
you might want to make sure you disable the old login.
Fred