From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 16:42:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07213 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:42:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dax.belen.k12.nm.us (dax.belen.k12.nm.us [206.206.121.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07208 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:42:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wildcard@dax.belen.k12.nm.us) Received: from localhost (wildcard@localhost) by dax.belen.k12.nm.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA10776; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 17:50:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wildcard@dax.belen.k12.nm.us) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 17:50:29 -0700 (MST) From: wildcardus freakis To: Jerry Raynor cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Charlie Root ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just my opinion but.... uhm...try to stay out of vipw unless you have to, you can screw stuff up if you make a mistake... and a better util to use is chpass...a little more advanced then chsh...chpass also gives you some other options that I find usefull, like account expiration and passwd expiration. Either way you will need to be logged in as root. Sasha 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 > > > 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