Can I rename a user??

[Beartooth]

	I have a machine with an apparently failing hard drive, which I 
plan to give away to someone who may replace the drive. Of course I want 
my password and root's password off it.

	Root is not a problem; I simply change the password to a dummy I 
can remember, and let the recipient change it again, right?

	How about the user? I'd like to do a little more than that -- but 
not just delete the user and create a new one. The currently most likely 
recipient describes himself as a newbie -- meaning, I believe, to linux. 

	I don't have to worry about actual data; I had wiped the drive 
with DBAN, and this is a new install, onto which I have yet to copy 
anything from any backups.

	But I do have various tweaks and adjustments -- arrangements of 
panels and launchers, default tabs for browsers and the gnome terminal, 
the workspace switcher, etc., etc.

	No doubt, when he's done this a while, he'll alter them all. But 
if it were me, I'd prefer starting with *something* to work from, rather 
than having to re-invent my whole workspace(s) from scratch. Can I give 
that to him? How?

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
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Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.