From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 14:50:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23374 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:50:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23368 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:50:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul5.u.washington.edu (root@saul5.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.3]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id OAA16424; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:12:59 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul5.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id OAA18153; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:12:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:12:28 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Jerry Raynor cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Charlie Root ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Jerry Raynor wrote: >This maybe a stupid question but I really don't want to mess-up the root >access by doing anything wrong. > >How do I change the user's "name" (root) from Charlie Root to whatever? This info is in '/etc/passwd' but you should never edit /etc/passwd directly. You should use 'vipw' to edit this file. Change the apropriate field. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message