Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 03:05:27 -0600 (CST) From: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> To: Nguyen Huu Hoa <huuhoa@ioit.ncst.ac.vn> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Rename a user Message-ID: <20040313024623.E28417@goodwill.io.com> In-Reply-To: <20040313065357265.AAA2724@mail.ncst.ac.vn@nhh> References: <20040313065357265.AAA2724@mail.ncst.ac.vn@nhh>
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Nguyen Huu Hoa wrote: > Thanks, > But can I rename root user? I would advise you not to change root's user name (which is "root"), but there is no reason you cannot edit root's full name which is Charlie. If you want another login for root, see how the entry for toor is done. Root should not be doing anything public, such as sending e-mail, so root's name should be immaterial. Any user with UID 0 should be able to do what root does - or actually any name with UID 0 is just an alias of root. For example, if you login as toor, whoami will return "root" and if you cd, you will go to /root. -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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