Rename a user

Nguyen Huu Hoa huuhoa at ioit.ncst.ac.vn
Fri Mar 12 23:23:15 PST 2004


Thanks,
But can I rename root user?

Hoa, Nguyen
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:jonc at chen.org.nz] 
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 1:18 PM
To: Nguyen Huu Hoa
Cc: freebsd-questions at 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.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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