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From: "paradive" <james@enfect.com>
To: "Arseny Slobodjuck" <ampy@crosswinds.net>
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Subject: Re: changing the user name
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 15:06:43 -0700
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To: Arseny Slobodjuck <ampy@crosswinds.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:02 AM
Subject: RE: changing the user name


> 
> On 06-Sep-00 Arseny Slobodjuck wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   What command can I use to change the username which is stored in
> >   passwd file after GUID field ? Should I manually edit passwd and
> >   master.passwd to do this ?
> > 
> Use vipw(1), this also updates the passwd database.

i'd suggest chpass. safer anyways....

paradive




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