Rename a user

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Fri Mar 12 22:18:18 PST 2004


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.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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