From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 6: 2:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pickup2-ld.pvd.loa.net (pickup.loa.com [199.171.167.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8998137B400 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 06:02:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32236 invoked by uid 0); 4 Mar 2002 14:02:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pretorian) (208.130.43.221) by pickup2-ld.pvd.loa.net with SMTP; 4 Mar 2002 14:02:51 -0000 Message-ID: <002501c1c385$58488960$37b4a8c0@pretorian> From: "Brent" To: "Mike D" , References: <20020303214052.LDEH22101.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@there> Subject: Re: renaming a user account Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:03:21 -0500 Organization: Log On America MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think youll have better luck with "vipw" B ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike D" To: Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 4:40 PM Subject: renaming a user account > I need to rename a user account. > > I tried chpass {username}, changed the login, :wq, but the name remained > unchanged. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks for help in advance! > > Mike > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message