Changing my Home folder's owner

Question

I recently updated my ubuntu to 11.04 and have run into an issue. I decided to do a fresh install instead of an upgrade and made my username different from my last. Now everything has my past usernames permissions.

How can I transition my home folder into my new installation/username.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

sagarchalise · Answer 1 · 2011-05-14T17:18:23.487

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Well as far home folder goes

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /home/$USER

will do the trick I think.

edited May 14 '11 at 17:18

answered May 14 '11 at 15:08

sagarchalise

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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Changing the user name is not so trivial in Ubuntu.

It would therefore be best advice to create a new user with you previous user name. To do so open System Settings -> Users and Groups. From -> Advanced Settings we may define the location of our /home/<username>/ directory. Choose the path to your old /home/username and you are done:

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edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered May 14 '11 at 15:15

Takkat

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Changing my Home folder's owner

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