Bug 450590

Normally my username is `tom`.
A fresh install is done as user `neon`.
Now I wish to rename neon back to tom, and change ~ folder from /home/neon to /home/tom

Minor GUI issue in `Manage Users` in system settings: "There was an error saving changes".  It is unable to perform user login name change. User is still "neon".

Perhaps I will fix with the usermod CLI command, but not sure where to start. You can see my attempts to fix this here:

cat /etc/passwd | grep 1000
neon:x:1000:1000:Tom Atkinson:/home/neon:/bin/bash
ls -la /home
drwxr-xr-x  1 neon neon  5692 Feb 20 10:19 neon
drwxr-xr-x  1 neon neon  5660 Feb 20 05:41 tom

usermod -d /home/tom neon
usermod: user neon is currently used by process 1909
sudo usermod -d /home/tom neon
usermod: user neon is currently used by process 1909
usermod --login tom neon
usermod: user neon is currently used by process 1909

Maybe I will try this as root prior to graphical login so I will file this report for now: I made this report in case noobs be vexed by it (after entering admin creds it would be nice if panel could detect the permissions issues and ask to fix it automagically).

- I installed KDE with user 1000 as "neon" with home inside root /
- then i decide i want to mount a home partition at /home and access /home/tom my normal user account. i install with username neon to protect that folder somewhat when installing fresh copy of linux.
- cd /home mv neon neon_factory #before i delete i backup factory settings in case
- cp -al tom/ neon/ #bringing my old home folder across 



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