From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 01:06:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089BC16A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 01:06:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from solomon.io.com (solomon.io.com [199.170.88.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 807C043D46 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 01:06:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eighner@io.com) Received: from io.com (aus-as2-190.io.com [199.170.89.190]) by solomon.io.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id i2D97Fah006146; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 03:07:18 -0600 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 03:05:27 -0600 (CST) From: Lars Eighner To: Nguyen Huu Hoa In-Reply-To: <20040313065357265.AAA2724@mail.ncst.ac.vn@nhh> Message-ID: <20040313024623.E28417@goodwill.io.com> References: <20040313065357265.AAA2724@mail.ncst.ac.vn@nhh> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Rename a user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:06:34 -0000 On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Nguyen Huu Hoa wrote: > Thanks, > But can I rename root user? I would advise you not to change root's user name (which is "root"), but there is no reason you cannot edit root's full name which is Charlie. If you want another login for root, see how the entry for toor is done. Root should not be doing anything public, such as sending e-mail, so root's name should be immaterial. Any user with UID 0 should be able to do what root does - or actually any name with UID 0 is just an alias of root. For example, if you login as toor, whoami will return "root" and if you cd, you will go to /root. -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266