From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 16:41:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06937 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:41:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06922 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:41:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.054 #18) id 0znVF9-000A6K-00; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 22:04:31 +0000 Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 22:04:31 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Jerry Raynor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Charlie Root ?? Message-ID: <19981208220431.A38811@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.17i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Use vipw or chsh to edit that field. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message