Re: Changing user names without recreating accounts

From: Carlos Benjamin <benj@firstlinux.net> > >--- CKGeier@nwc.edu > > wrote: > >For you Informix and/or AIX gurus: > > > >I am thinking about changing some of our usernames (for a number of > >different reasons) and I have completed one test successfully, as far as >I > >can tell at this point. Using a test user, > > > >1) I changed the username in the /etc/passwd file, leaving the unix id > >intact. > >2) I changed the username in the /etc/group file > >3) Changed ownership of home directory and files within to the new > >username > >4) Used dbadmin to remove old username and add new one. > > > >For C.A.R.S admins: > >1) rebuilt schemas so new username replaces old one. > > > >I am thinking that doing it this way, in a script would preserve unix and > >CARS id's. I am wondering if there are any other files in CARS that I >need > >to change, and if anyone knows that this won't work. Will any of these > >procedures corrupt files and or logins? > >Cathy, > >If you use smit at all to set up/change users you could be asking for >trouble. I don't know for certain, but I think smit (like face with AT&T >SysV) holds some of that information in a set of files outside of /etc. The >problem with face was that the next time you used it your changes made by >hand would disappear. > >I don't think things are quite that bad with smit (based on some >experimentation last week), but there are some files in /etc/security that >also need to be changed. I know limits is one. cd to /etc/security and grep >for the username you changed on all the files and you should be able to >find the other one (the name escapes me at the moment) and possibly some >others. > >When making changes by hand I know a lot of admins like to cp the old >passwd and group files to o.passwd and o.group (or filename.old) just in >case before making changes. GONG!!! _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.