On 30-Apr-99 Marlon Urias wrote: > If I get a user who wants to change only their username how do I go about > doing a thorough job? Simply changing the passwd entry doesnt seem to be > the right thing because then all the files with ownership > oldLogin.oldLogin > wont be availabe for user newLogin. Thanks for the help. >
Actually vipw and change the user name there should do it. The name shown in ls -al is from this file. As long as the uid does not change, all is happy.
