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You’ll want a
-aon thatcpto preserve permissions.usermod -land a symlink is my plan.Nice plan, I used a symlink to quickly heal fixed paths in configs like
ln -s /home/NewAffirmingName/ /home/OldName/That way if a setting I transferred over is trying to pull a file from /home/OldName/Gamesave instead of ~/Gamesave it will still work… unless it doesn’t recognize symlinks… but for a lot of stuff it has been working.
I finally did this earlier today :)
Congrats!
I know I felt pretty awesome when I did it. Infinitely better than what I had previously, not only was my account name dated, but I had a picture of me before I grew my hair out as the account picture…
I hated it every time it popped up.
Im happy to say, I have zero proper security practices, 90% of my machines run as root >:3 also CONFIG_MULTIUSER=N is something I have done, so I funny enough cannot relate
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There also this scripterino which do it for you, and keep your user at 1000.
https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/issues/264#issuecomment-1004728613
That’s super cool, I will have to take a look at that later!
And Here I was thinking how naming my host “Archbtw” would be super original :(.
Bit off topic, but what’s the purpose of the '.[^.]*’ regex there? Wouldn’t a wildcard * character suffice?
