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05-18-2003, 06:03 AM
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Registered: May 2002
Distribution: Mandrake 10.0
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How can user names be changed?
How can user names be changed?  |
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05-18-2003, 06:06 AM
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Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Poland, Warsaw
Distribution: LFS, Gentoo
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just edit /etc/passwd file and also rename its home directory name
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05-18-2003, 08:07 AM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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if you mean on this site, then you can't. sorry.
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05-18-2003, 11:46 AM
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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu
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Quote:
Originally posted by dorian33
just edit /etc/passwd file and also rename its home directory name
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You don't *have* to rename the home directory if you didn't want to (if it'd cause too much work). The user would just have to remember that name for their home directory.
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05-19-2003, 08:59 AM
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Registered: May 2002
Distribution: Mandrake 10.0
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Thanks
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