On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 05:19:09PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > > Once upon a time, I heard Brian say > > > > > Cameron Matheson said: > > > > > > >Hey, > > > > > > > >I want to change my user name from fatmike to cmatheson. Is this > > > >possible? > > > > I think the easierway is edit your /etc/password and change username and > > home directory feild, you should find it easily :) > > > > Then rename your old home dir to new homedir, that's it. > > Will the file ownership/permissions remain intact? I suspect they will, > thinking that the permissions are based on the user ID instead of the > username, but I'm not sure. >
yes owners/groups are stored as numeric id in the filesystem, ls just maps it to a real username based on /etc/passwd that is why /etc/passwd must be world readable (among other reasons) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
