On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:23 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
> Thanks, Theresa. Worked pretty well for me, too. There's no need to
> do the killall as that works off the uid. So, to tighten it up a bit:
>
> $ sudo usermod -l bar -d /home/bar -m -c "bar" foo
> $ sudo groupmod -n bar foo
>
> Or in script form:
>
> change_handle () {
> old=$1
> new=$2
> sudo usermod -l $new -d /home/$new -m -c "$new" $old
> sudo groupmod -n $new $old
> sudo passwd -e $new
> }
>
> Caveat emptor as it does no sanity checks. But the jist is there.
>
> I suspect these commands will not work for those programs that may do
> additional checks, e.g. sshd or sudo. Or if authentication is handles
> by a different mechanism, e.g. NIS or LDAP.
Well, I did test sudo, and that worked just fine (sudo su from newuserid
put me into shell as root).
Didn't mess with sshd, though -- is that something you could easily
test?
Theresa
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