Change user's username in Ubuntu

[johncowan]

Greetings-
I have Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn on my windows machine. I can boot into either one. I did this to play with linux a bit and try to learn more about it. Now, I wish I had used the same username as I have for my windows account.

I'd like to know if I can change my username in my Ubuntu. I'm the only user and I've installed a lot of apps that really do not want to reinstall them under a different username.

Thanks for any help.
cheers!

[devils casper]

Execute this

usermod -l <newname> -d /home/<newname> -m <oldname>
groupmod -n <newgroup> <oldgroup>

Username and Groupname are same in Ubuntu and you have to execute both commands.

[johncowan]

Thank you very much. I'll give it a try.
Much appreciated.