Remove or Change user ID and Password

[marco07]

Hi Folks:
I want to tranfer the ownership of my laptop to someone else. He wants to maintain the current set-up of the sytem, dual booting into WinXP and Kubuntu 12.04. Aside from cleanig up my private files, how should I go with removing or changing my user ID and password after creating a new user account for him?
Thanks!

[Snowhog]

After setting up the new user account and adding it to the administrators group, log in with that new account and then delete your account.

[marco07]

After setting up the new user account and adding it to the administrators group, log in with that new account and then delete your account.

Got it.
Thanks!

[SteveRiley]

Don't forget to do the same on the XP side. Create the new account, log in, delete the old. Plus your files.

One thing you should know: deleting files doesn't actually make them go away. The disk blocks containing the files are simply added back to the pool of available space. You probably should run some utilities to wipe the free space of all data.

For Windows, use SDelete. Only one pass is sufficient:

C:> [B]sdelete -p 1 -c c:[/B]

Repeat for any other Windows volumes.

For Linux, install the package secure-delete. Then run sfill. Again, only one pass is sufficient:

[b]sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sda1

sudo sfill -llzv /

sudo tune2fs -m 5 /dev/sda1[/b]

The above assumes that you have mounted your root file system (/) on /dev/sda1. Repeat the above for each partition that contains a Linux filesystem.

[marco07]

Don't forget to do the same on the XP side. Create the new account, log in, delete the old. Plus your files.

One thing you should know: deleting files doesn't actually make them go away. The disk blocks containing the files are simply added back to the pool of available space. You probably should run some utilities to wipe the free space of all data.

Hi Steve:
Thanks for the guidance. I will do!
It is much appreciated.