[NTLUG:Discuss] change a username

[Rusty Haddock]

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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