Change user name due to nfs drive

[sethleon]

Hello.

Recently I have received my new synology diskstation.
Thus I had to change my user name and id to fit the one of the diskstation.
Now my problem is how I can tell all applications, that my user name has changed,
i.e. also the home directory.

Does anybody know an easy way, not to "sed" all config folders in my home directory?

Thanks in advance.
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[Buffoon]

It sounds like you are trying to break in thru an open door. You do not need to change your user, you can map to a different user using NFS.

[sethleon]

What do you mean exactly, changing my clients or the server configuration?

I read, that the synology diskstation nfs server does not provide a nfs mapping.
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[Buffoon]

SSH into it and create a user with matching UID (and GID if you think you need it), done. UID matters, NFS does not care about username.

[sethleon]

The command "useradd" does not exist on a synology diskstation.

As I said, my user's name is already changed, that why I was opening this thread.
My nfs drives works like charm. Only some apps are annoyed about he change.
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[Buffoon]

[sethleon]

There is no such user adding command, due to the NAS has its special mechanism to add a user incl. ftp, sub, nfs usage.

I have other users, they access the NAS using smb, e.g. from Windows.
Currently I am the only one using nfs, the problem is not renaming and not even my Linux knowledge.
It was a time saving solution to rename the user, because I needed the nfs for work.

Anyway thanks so far.
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