Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-02-08 22:11:04) > The one piece that we do need if we're going to standardize, on top of > an agreement that standardization is useful, is an adduser --rename > command. There are a bunch of packages in the archive right now that > stomp on the normal account namespace (such as my own lbcd package), > but removing and recreating the user has a ton of problems. If there > were a way that I could just rename the system lbcd user to _lbcd, > with some additional sanity checks, I would do so, and deal with the > required updates to the init script and similar configurations. Seems you are essentially talking about this; usermod -l $NEWNAME $OLDNAME What would such --rename option to adduser script contain, beyond that? -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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