[lug] Newbie admin question

Glenn Murray gmurray at Mines.EDU
Wed Mar 21 09:36:11 MST 2001


How do you change the name of a user?  

Can you do it naively be editing /etc/passwd and changing file
ownerships, or is this a Bad Idea?  Must you start over with a new
user name?

Glenn Murray
www.mines.edu/~glenn/public_html/Welcome.html




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