[96718] in RedHat Linux List
Re: rename a username?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nerv01@noah.dogma.org)
Wed Oct 28 23:25:45 1998
From: nerv01@noah.dogma.org
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:25:50 -0600 (EST)
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Thank You Very Very Very much.. I have done this. And it seems to be
working. I also did the usermod but it did not change all the files except
passwd. So I manually did the rest. How do I set up shadow passwd?
Thanks
-b!
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Grifter Danzerg wrote:
> edit /etc/passwd
> /etc/shadow
> /etc/group
>
> rename the home directory to the new one.
>
> Grifter Danzerg
>
> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 nerv01@noah.dogma.org wrote:
>
> > Hey is it possible to rename a user name to another one? I have a friend
> > who would like his renamed. Is it easier just to delete the old one and
> > then create a new one? If there is a way to rename please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > benjamin
> >
> >
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