Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 16:38:57 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Heinrich Langos <heinrich@zaphod.wh9.tu-dresden.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: renaming of usernames and homedirectories Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980513163029.4931A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca> In-Reply-To: <199805131953.VAA16206@zaphod.wh9.tu-dresden.de>
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On Wed, 13 May 1998, Heinrich Langos wrote: > Hi > > first of all i have to admit that i'm a linux user so some of the concepts > of freebsd look a little strange to me. now i'm stuck with a system that i > have to maintain as long as the owner is ill. Good thing! > 1) > how do I rename a user in FreeBSD 2.2.5 on linux i just go and change his > name in /etc/passwd and maybe even in /etc/shadowpasswd and thats it. try the command pw. See the man page. Try : pw usermod oldname -l newname it should do it. > but in Freebsd the name is also saved in that non-human-readable database > files. :-( > is there any use in that except for security by obscurity? (which history > has shown doesn't work anyway) and how do i get around it ? I dunno. But I'm curious... Which part of history has shown this? > 2) > > another problem is that i can't change a users home directory. if i change > it to something different and log in i'm sent to "/". changing the password > of that user overwrites my changes that i made to /etc/passwd and > /etc/master.passwd and replaces the home directory entry with the old one. Again, pw -m -d /newdirectory should do it. > 3) > > last but not least ... is there a way to search the old digests of the > freebsd mailing lists ? the sun administrators list is a great example of > how to do that: http://www.dataman.nl/cgi-bin/sunmanagers > I had to manage a network of sun computers for some time and this > searchengine saved me at least a year of my life. half a year that i would > have spent searching other places and half a year that i would have died > earlier because of stress and frustration with that closed system :-) On the freebsd homepage, you can search the mailing lists in the "Search" section... > ______________________________________________________________________ > |o| The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. |o| > |o| It's absolutely not. It's the stupidest reason to buy a new |o| > |o| version I ever heard. -- Bill Gates, CEO, Microsoft Corporation |o| > |o| BOYCOTT MICROSOFT: <http://www.vcnet.com/bms/>; |o| > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Is that an authentic citation??? Funny! +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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