Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:36:38 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, Joe Chimento <takhoos@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: renaming user account? Message-ID: <20090318223638.4700f342.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090318122506.8829a34d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <b2d67c7a0903180827nc474bcemb03ab70ec7f5dbae@mail.gmail.com> <20090318161616.GA62837@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20090318122506.8829a34d.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:25:06 -0400, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: > However, the canonical way to do this is using the pw command. pw will > sanity check all your changes to ensure you don't end up with a groups > file that doesn't match your master.password, etc. There *may* be one additional thing you would have to take care of manually: If you change the user's name, and still some of his files contain the old name (e. g. in paths where /home/oldname is used instead of ~ or $HOME), you still have to change this manually. You can use tools like the Midnight Commander, function Meta-?, to search files for the old user name (or use find + grep). Eventually, check system's mail aliases file, if you had this user setup to receive mail (e. g. from night jobs). > It's somewhat better suited for use in scripts than use by humans. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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