[NTLUG:Discuss] change a username
Rusty Haddock
rusty at fe2o3.lonestar.org
Thu Jan 16 09:07:58 CST 2003
Fred James wrote:
>I set up a username wrong, such as "abcdefg" when the user would prefer
>"acdefg".
>Can that be successfully changed by editing /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow,
>and /etc/group, and changing the home directory name?
That should about do it so long as you don't change the UserID #.
Changing the UID would entail a bunch of find(1) and chown(1).
-Rusty-
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