Changing username

Jerry Van Brimmer

30 Mar 2002 30 Mar '02

02:35

Is there a way to chane my user account name from jerry to jerryvb without reinstalling? Thanks -- Rev. 1:7 ; Registered Linux User #153217

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Jay Vollmer

30 Mar 30 Mar

02:48

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Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

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Is there a way to chane my user account name from jerry to jerryvb without reinstalling?

Provided that you don't need to change your UID, I think you can just change /etc/passwd, then rename your home directory. I'm sure that someone will correct me if I'm wrong. -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER1@MN.RR.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

Jerry Van Brimmer

05:16

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Thanks Jay, that sounds to easy to be true. Does anybody else have any input on this? On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:48:10 -0600 Jay Vollmer wrote:

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Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

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Is there a way to chane my user account name from jerry to jerryvb without reinstalling?

Provided that you don't need to change your UID, I think you can just change /etc/passwd, then rename your home directory.

I'm sure that someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

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James Mohr

07:21

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Be sure to check /etc/shadow and /etc/group. Typically SuSE sets up using the /etc/shadow to store the real user passwords and the user name is in there as well. Plus if you have made any extra configuration to smb.conf, sendmail, and so forth, you need to look there, as well. regards, jimmo On Saturday 30 March 2002 06:16, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

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Thanks Jay, that sounds to easy to be true. Does anybody else have any input on this?

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:48:10 -0600

Jay Vollmer wrote:

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Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

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Is there a way to chane my user account name from jerry to jerryvb without reinstalling?

Provided that you don't need to change your UID, I think you can just change /etc/passwd, then rename your home directory.

I'm sure that someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

-- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER1@MN.RR.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

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Jerry Van Brimmer

06:34

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If I go into "Yast2/Security and Users/Edit and create users", I come to a screen where I can select my account, click on Edit, and then i see a screen where I could edit my login account. If I change my login name there, will Yast2 take care of changing my login name everywhere it's needed to change? On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 08:21:06 +0100 James Mohr wrote:

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Be sure to check /etc/shadow and /etc/group. Typically SuSE sets up using the /etc/shadow to store the real user passwords and the user name is in there as well. Plus if you have made any extra configuration to smb.conf, sendmail, and so forth, you need to look there, as well.

regards,

jimmo

On Saturday 30 March 2002 06:16, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

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Thanks Jay, that sounds to easy to be true. Does anybody else have any input on this?

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:48:10 -0600

Jay Vollmer wrote:

...
Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

...
Is there a way to chane my user account name from jerry to jerryvb without reinstalling?

Provided that you don't need to change your UID, I think you can just change /etc/passwd, then rename your home directory.

I'm sure that someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

-- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER1@MN.RR.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

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Thorsten Kukuk

09:47

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On Fri, Mar 29, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

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If I go into "Yast2/Security and Users/Edit and create users", I come to a screen where I can select my account, click on Edit, and then i see a screen where I could edit my login account. If I change my login name there, will Yast2 take care of changing my login name everywhere it's needed to change?

No, this is impossible. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE Linux AG Deutschherrenstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B

wolfi

10:44

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On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 03:35, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

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Is there a way to chane my user account name from jerry to jerryvb without reinstalling?

Thanks

I would do it that way: - Create the new user jerryvb - Copy your old home directory to the new one: # cp -pR /home/jerry /home/jerryvb p --preserve permissions/ownership R --recursive This automatically overwrites the home directory created by YaST (1 or 2) - Adapt ownership: # chown -R jerryvb /home/cherryvb - Then delete user jerry in YaST, most recommendably _after_ having checked that everything works for jerryvb This is 'with reinstalling', if I got you right, but I don't think it's that great trouble, is it? Cheers ... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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