On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:44 pm, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > Is there a way to change a user's login name under Unix? > > such a question... ;) > > > Is it safe enough to simply rename their home directory and > > edit their entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? > > Safe enough, because security is managed by UID through those files, but > maybe not quite complete enough. > > I would also make sure to rename their mail spool file, and do a > find /etc -type f | xargs grep oldusername > to find places like the sudo configuration files that might reference > their usernames. Other applications like "mysql" or "samba" might also > maintain parallel configurations for that username.
aah, yes, excellent suggestions. shawn. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
