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From: "Nguyen Huu Hoa" <huuhoa@ioit.ncst.ac.vn>
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Thanks,
But can I rename root user?

Hoa, Nguyen
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From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:jonc@chen.org.nz] 
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 1:18 PM
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Subject: Re: Rename a user

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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