From: Green, Simon (SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 09:40:54 EDT
By far the simplest way is to delete the userid and add it back again, using
the same ID number.
Simon Green
Philip Morris ITSC Europe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Verzal [mailto:Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM]
> Sent: 18 September 2002 14:07
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Changing user-id
>
>
> 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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