From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 13:52:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9130837B404 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D53443E9E for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:52:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A2821793 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:52:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by onceler.kciLink.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 978C63D49; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:52:51 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root email name? Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions References: <200210162328.g9GNSo1J039009@axp.csl.sri.com> X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1034973960 51093 216.194.193.106 (18 Oct 2002 20:46:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 (@kci) X-Razor-id: d67a56a672a56c6eb99237c175ef89d8821f8b67 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "MH" == Mike Hogsett writes: MH> Edit the gecos field in the /etc/password file >> How do I change the name of my email from Charlie Root? Wrong answer. You edit the password file via the "vipw" program, so it properly locks it and properly rebuilds the databases related to it. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message