Re: Changing user-id

From: Saxon, Lamar (Lamar.Saxon@AMERICREDIT.COM)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 12:15:58 EDT


Don't have to do that if you keep the same UID. Remember files are owned by
UIDs not users.

Lamar

-----Original Message-----
From: Page, Jennifer [mailto:Jennifer.Page@RBCDAIN.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:04 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
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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