From: Bill Thompson (bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 11:36:56 EDT
This will not be necessary as Bill wants to change the user name, not the
UID. UNIX uses the UID (a number) for file ownership and only converts it
to names (using the passwd file as the cross reference) for our
convenience.
Bill Thompson
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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Page, Jennifer" <Jennifer.Page@RBCDAIN.COM>
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To: <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: Changing user-id
> Besides changing the files below you will want to run a "find" script to
find any files owned by the user id. Write those to a file for a chown
script.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Verzal [mailto:Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:07 AM
> 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 ?
>
> BV
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