Linux change username

Change user linux

sudo su - username

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Linux change username

# login as root and make sure that there are no active processes for user
usermod -l NEW_USERNAME OLD_USERNAME
# if user is running kill user w the following command
userUID=$(id -u OLD_USERNAME) && pkill -U $userUID

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