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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 14:38:33 +0800
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From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Charlie Root-changing the name
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At 01:06 11/11/97 -0600, you wrote:

>  I swear I'm tried to find out how to change the "Charlie Root" name
>for quite a while now.  I've greped /etc, and it's in a binary (that
>corrupts xterm when greped), but not in anything configurable.  I found
>where there's a referent to "Charlie", but changing this doesn't seem to
>help.  I also greped the /root directory.  Well, it's no big deal, I'm
>tho only one who uses the system, for now, but when I do get another
>phone line to allow it to stay up, I'd like this fixed.  I've also
>searched the mail archives, but there's many references to Charlie
>AND Root because of the users named Charlie Root.  Can anyone help me?

Yes, the password database is in db format.

Logged in/su'd as root, try:

chfn root

This will let you change the name of the root login to whatever you like.

Saving and Exiting will update/rebuild the password database.

Regards,

d.

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