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On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Jerry Raynor wrote:

> This maybe a stupid question but I really don't want to mess-up the root
> access by doing anything wrong.
> 
> How do I change the user's "name" (root) from Charlie Root to whatever?
> 
> Thanks 

type "chfn" as root. 


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