Changing user-id

From: Bill Verzal (Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 09:07:07 EDT

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Hi *,

What is the impact of changing a user ID ?

For example: "sam" wants to change to "samuel".

Can I:

     1. vi /etc/passwd
     2. vi /etc/security/passwd
     3. vi /etc/security/user
     4. vi /etc/group
     5. mkpasswd -f

The user ID # will stay the same. Anything else ?

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