 | | | edit user | edit user 2005-03-15 - By Michael Velez
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Which Red Hat version are you using? I tried it on Red Hat Enterprise 3 (I
haven 't upgraded to 4 yet) and it works fine.
Your Red Hat version may accept '. ' in the login name but the shell command
may get confused with the '. '
Try the following:
usermod -l 'rizwan1.khan ' rizwan1
If this does not work, there is nothing wrong with editing the /etc/passwd
file manually. This will not corrupt other login programs. Try it. If you
cannot login or su to that username then your system will not allow '. ' in
the login name.
If you can login with a '. ' in the username and you want to put all this in
a script (instead of editing manually), use the 'sed ' command (stream
editor) to edit the /etc/passwd. You can use the following commands after
you have created a user called rizwan1khan:
cat /etc/passwd | sed {s/rizwan1khan/rizwan1.khan/} > /etc/passwd
You may want to verify that permissions on /etc/passwd are accurate after
this and reset them. Depending on what the root umask is set to, you may
end up with permissions you do not want.
Michael
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: redhat-list-bounces@(protected)
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@(protected)] On Behalf Of Muhammad Rizwan
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:34 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: edit user
>
>
> Yes, i already check man page for usermod.
> The problem is Linux dont allow users with dot. like rizwan.khan.
> This is the result of your suggested command:
> [root@(protected) root]# usermod -l rizwan1.khan rizwan1
> usermod: invalid field `rizwan1.khan '
>
> Any idea, how can i add users with dot without editing
> /etc/passwd file myself.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 00:11, Michael Velez wrote:
> > 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@(protected)
> > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@(protected)] 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@(protected)
> > > > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@(protected)] 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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