On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 11:44 -0400, Thom Paine wrote: > I was wondering if it's possible to quickly and easily switch a > username on a samba controlled domain. I have a user who got married > and I need to change her login from sgillies to scampbell. Is there a > quick way I could do this, or do I need to create a new user and then > copy her data over? I've been reading, but I can't find anything to > clearly tell me if I can or not. > > This in on a Windows XP network with a Samba DC. ---- sure but you'd have to change... /etc/passwd (or wherever user accounts are stored) /etc/shadow (or wherever user passwords are stored) the users $HOME directory smbpasswd (or tdbpassdb or wherever samba user accounts/passwords are stored) If you were using LDAP, you'd probably already understand this and could make the changes. I wouldn't recommend doing any of that...a user account is a user account and they should just continue to use the same login. If you create a new account and try to 'move' stuff, you are gonna have to use the profile migration tool from Microsoft to move the users 'profile' to the new account. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
