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Re: user name in pine

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Wed Nov 25 20:03:52 1998

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:05:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Jeff Williamson wrote:

> when logged in as root and using pine, my mail address is root @blah.com.
> how can i change it to jwilli@blah.com without logging out and back in?
> 

I don't think you can do this Jeff.  It's better to create a jwilli
user account and su to root anyway.  

Cheers!
--                         
Chuck Mead, CEO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc. <chuck@moongroup.com>
http://www.moongroup.com/
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/

This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's
constant.  And then the aside: "For those of you who don't know, that's
been called by others the fiddle factor..."
                -- From a 1B Electrical Engineering lecture.


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