[clue-tech] should'a seen that coming...

[David L. Willson]

The most manly and Linuxly correct way for me to have changed the
username would have been 'sudo usermod -l desiredname currentname'.

I just tested that, and confirmed that it makes appropriate changes
in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group, at least.  (I did not check
down-level services like Samba/LDAP/etc, so be careful out there.)

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 16:53 -0600, David L. Willson wrote:
> I type 'sudo vipw' to change my username, the system prompts me that I
> probably want to 'sudo vipw -s' to make /etc/shadow consistent
> with /etc/passwd, so I do... or rather, I don't, because now my username
> in one is different than in the other, so I can't authenticate any more.
> Rats...  Sadly, this is a VMware Server, so I ~really~ don't want to
> have to reboot to recovery mode.  Any idears?
> 
> _______________________________________________
> clue-tech mailing list
> clue-tech at cluedenver.org
> http://www.cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech