From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 3:14:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from willow.compass.com.ph (willow.compass.com.ph [202.167.28.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1636937B42C for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 03:14:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sequoia.compass.com.ph (root@sequoia.compass.com.ph [202.167.28.2]) by willow.compass.com.ph (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA79361; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:14:04 +0800 (PHT) (envelope-from ronald@compass.com.ph) Received: from localhost (ronald@localhost) by sequoia.compass.com.ph (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA16215; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:14:03 +0800 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:14:03 +0800 (PHT) From: Ronald Rivera To: Arseny Slobodjuck Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing the user name In-Reply-To: <1866.000906@crosswinds.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Arseny Slobodjuck wrote: > Hi, > > What command can I use to change the username which is stored in > passwd file after GUID field ? Should I manually edit passwd and > master.passwd to do this ? > hi, manually editing the passwd files are NOT recommended. when changing user names, use the 'pw' command. the command will take care of changing the password file entries. hth, ronald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message