[96723] in RedHat Linux List
Re: rename a username?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Simpson)
Wed Oct 28 23:48:59 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:48:41 +1100 (EST)
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From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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On 29 Oct 1998, in message <XFMail.981028233021.moloney@netsrq.com>
Tim Moloney <moloney@netsrq.com> 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?
| >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.
And rewrite any mail aliases with their login name in it, and repoint
any symlinks which had their old homedir path in 'em, and change and
URLs pointing at their homepage if you run a web service, and rename
their crontab file, and tell everyone who used the old name (eg in mail
aliases) about the update and...
Oh, the list just goes on and on and on... :-(
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Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
Loose lids kink squids. - Jody.P.Levine@hydro.on.ca DoD#275
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