[96720] in RedHat Linux List
Re: rename a username?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Moloney)
Wed Oct 28 23:31:06 1998
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981028222338.31524A-100000@noah.dogma.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:28:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Moloney <moloney@netsrq.com>
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On 29-Oct-98 nerv01@noah.dogma.org wrote:
>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.
>>
Don't forget to rename the user's mailbox (/var/spool/mail/username),
if appropriate.
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