[lug] Migrating Ubuntu User Name

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:12:55 +0000 (UTC)
stimits at comcast.net wrote:

> echnically I should be able to do this with "usermod", but the command
> will refuse to run because the original home directory is in use (user
> ubuntu must be used to do the usermod...catch 22, this forces it to be
> in use at all times during usermod).

Any reason why you can't unlock root, log in as root, and do what you
need to do?