Re: Changing user name
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 05:19:09PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote:
>
> > Once upon a time, I heard Brian say
> >
> > > Cameron Matheson said:
> > >
> > > >Hey,
> > > >
> > > >I want to change my user name from fatmike to cmatheson. Is this
> > > >possible?
> >
> > I think the easierway is edit your /etc/password and change username and
> > home directory feild, you should find it easily :)
> >
> > Then rename your old home dir to new homedir, that's it.
>
> Will the file ownership/permissions remain intact? I suspect they will,
> thinking that the permissions are based on the user ID instead of the
> username, but I'm not sure.
>
yes owners/groups are stored as numeric id in the filesystem, ls just
maps it to a real username based on /etc/passwd that is why
/etc/passwd must be world readable (among other reasons)
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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