[NTLUG:Discuss] change a username

[jeremyb@univista.com]

Rusty is correct, usernames are just friendly to us humans. they are
resolved to UIDs.
You could also create the correct user from scratch then change it's UID to 
that of the incorrect user. Then disable the incorrect user  or remove the
line in /etc/passwd all together.

-Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: Rusty Haddock
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Sent: 1/16/03 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] change a username

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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