edit user

[Michael Velez]

Usermod will allow you to change the login username.

Example:
usermod -l rizwan.khan rizwan

Where rizwan.khan is the new usename and rizwan is the old.  You can find
complete documentation to the usermod command by typing the following
command:

man usermod

Hope this helps,
Michael 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Muhammad Rizwan
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 8:20 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: edit user
> 
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> Another question is that, is it possible to edit the user's 
> login name with .name. For example if i have added user name 
> as rizwan, but now can i edit this user name as rizwan.khan. 
> One solution is to edit /etc/passwd file, but i don't want to 
> do this because in this way User Manager component of Linux 
> can corrupt. Can you please suggest me other solution?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 13:59, Michael Velez wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Muhammad Rizwan
> > > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:05 AM
> > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > > Subject: edit user
> > > 
> > > Hello
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to edit full name of system user through 
> command line?
> > > 
> > > Any idea?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
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> > 
> > There are two ways edit the name of a user
> > 
> > If you want to change the full name of user foo:
> > 
> > usermod -c "New Name" foo
> > 
> > Or
> > 
> > chfn -f "New Name" foo
> > 
> > If you need to do more complex pattern changes, you should use the 
> > stream editor 'sed'.  However, I think the above would 
> satisfy what you need.
> > 
> > Documentation exists on both these commands in the man pages.
> > 
> > Michael
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