Renaming User Account

[Jim Richardson]

On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 08:18 -0500, Jack Jackson wrote:
> Can I change the name of a user, retaining all the user home directory 
> properties? For example, changing user fred to user fsmith?
> 
> How?
> 

Just change the name in /etc/passwd and /etc/group

in a cli, type groups old_username to get a listing of what groups that
user belongs to, and you can change those in /etc/groups (or just do a
global search and replace on that file with oldname/newname.) Then
change the entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow. Also
check that the username isn't used in /etc/aliases.db, adjust
accordingly. 

Grepping through /etc/ for the username in question is a good start. 


-- 
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
"It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in" 
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