Re: changing user name
Thanks for the help! marlon
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Debian project development discussion wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 05:57:46PM -0700, Marlon Urias wrote:
> > If I get a user who wants to change only their username how do I go about
> > doing a thorough job? Simply changing the passwd entry doesnt seem to be
> > the right thing because then all the files with ownership
> > oldLogin.oldLogin
> > wont be availabe for user newLogin. Thanks for the help.
>
> Actually, changing the name in the password file is exactly what you want
> to do. Everything else in the system is using the user ID number to keep
> track of who owns what. (The user ID is the third field in the passwd
> file.) Use the ``vipw'' utility, as it will do the right thing with
> respect to shadow password files, etc. Also, if a group was created with
> the same name as the user, you might wish to edit the /etc/group file and
> change it there as well.
>
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