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Date:      Tue, 11 Nov 1997 02:16:21 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Peter Philipp <pjp@globalserve.net>
Cc:        Michael Porter <ocean@wavefront.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Charlie Root-changing the name
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971111021538.28678F-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971111023432.7245A-100000@tap.system.ca>

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On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Peter Philipp wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Michael Porter wrote:
> 
> >   I swear I'm tried to find out how to change the "Charlie Root" name
> > for quite a while now.  I've greped /etc, and it's in a binary (that
> > corrupts xterm when greped), but not in anything configurable.  I found
> > where there's a referent to "Charlie", but changing this doesn't seem to
> 
> man vipw
Although, for a project of this magnitude, you might just be better off
doing:
# chpass root
It's a little more explanatory.

> 
> Peter
> 
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