In such a vanilla environment, I doubt there would be problems, however in more mature installations, it can be tricky and sometimes dangerous to change usernames. I inherited a system that had several apps that were hardcoded to have a certain user, and then political considerations required me to change the name, and well, all hell broke use.
I guess the moral of the story is to have the backup tapes handy... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Kendrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Can a username be changed? > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:44:22PM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > <snip> > > > > I would also make sure to rename their mail spool file, > > This user doesn't get mail. :^) This user doesn't even get to > run a shell or see files in their home directory. > (I'm working on the kiosk box for Newsbeat, now that KDE 3.1 > came out. I decided "newsbeat" was a 'friendlier' username > than "default", since now when you click the big "K" menu, > it says "Logout 'username'") > > > > and do a > > find /etc -type f | xargs grep oldusername > > Hehe... ouch. Naming the user "default" back in the beginning > was a bad idea. ;^) I don't see anything important, though... > > > > 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. > > See above, re: kiosk ;^) > > I suppose I should have mentioned how restricted the user was when I > asked the question to begin with. Most of the 'beware' details don't > apply to this. :^) > > ITOH, everyone's info. is all quite helpful, it seems, and is happily > archived on lugod.org ;^) Thanks, all! > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Was I useful? Rate this message! > http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=billkendrick > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
