On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, George Toft wrote:

Keith White wrote:

...

If for example,i wanted to change a user xxxx to yyyy without destroying (a) the home directory (b) not invoke copying from /etc/skeleton (c) not change the UID (d) recursivly change the ownership of all files placed across the system by xxxx to yyyy (e) retain permissions for the new user yyyy to access db files etc.(this last one maybe not work).

How would this be done ??.

I'll give this one a whack: 1. Edit /etc/shadow - change user's username 2. Edit /etc/passwd - edit user's username, name, directory 3. mv user's directory to new username

I tried it before I sent this. Works fine.

George

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