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Date:      Sat, 13 Mar 2004 19:18:16 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Nguyen Huu Hoa <huuhoa@ioit.ncst.ac.vn>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Rename a user
Message-ID:  <20040313061816.GA34326@grimoire.chen.org.nz>

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On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:14:12AM +0700, Nguyen Huu Hoa wrote:
> Hi List,
> How can I rename a user from my BSD 5.2 system. I have a user called "hoa",
> then I want to rename it to "nguyen", so what should I do?

As root, use vipw and change the username.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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