how to change the name of root?

Julien Gabel jpeg at thilelli.net
Wed Nov 19 01:54:36 PST 2003


>> When I  get admin emails from  my remote boxes, or  send messages from
>> them, they are from root or charlie root. How do I change this?

> I would use vipw(1) to edit the password database.

Or you can use the pw(8) command this way :
# pw user mod -n root -c "WhatYouWant"

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-jg.


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