Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:53:54 +0700 From: "Nguyen Huu Hoa" <huuhoa@ioit.ncst.ac.vn> To: "'Jonathan Chen'" <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Rename a user Message-ID: <20040313065357265.AAA2724@mail.ncst.ac.vn@nhh> In-Reply-To: <20040313061816.GA34326@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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Thanks,
But can I rename root user?
Hoa, Nguyen
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:jonc@chen.org.nz]
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 1:18 PM
To: Nguyen Huu Hoa
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Rename a user
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:14:12AM +0700, Nguyen Huu Hoa wrote:
> Hi List,
> How can I rename a user from my BSD 5.2 system. I have a user called
"hoa",
> then I want to rename it to "nguyen", so what should I do?
As root, use vipw and change the username.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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