Linuxconf does the trick nicely, figure it's an old habit to use from the gui days, nice and easy until I learn proper ways of doing it. At 03:38 PM 12/12/01 -0800, you wrote: >On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:42:38PM -0700, L. C. Robinson wrote: >> It seems to me that it would be much easier to just change the >> username on such an account. Do: >> man usermod >> for details. > >That won't take care of user's mailbox name and it's permissions nor it >will change the ownership of files in user's home dir as far as I know. At >least it won't work that way in all versions of Unix. > >> >> LCR >> >> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Rafael wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:44:15PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: >> > > [quoted lines by John J. Boyer on December 12, 2001, at 14:38] >> > > >> > ..... deleted >> > >> > > >> > > >How do I delete a user? >> > > >> > > userdel old-user-name >> > > >> > > >How do I stop a running daemon like fetchmail without rebooting? >> > > >> > > killall fetchmail >> > > >> > > >How can I transfer the messages in the inbox of one use to the inbox of >> > > >another? >> > > >> > > cd /var/spool/mail >> > > cat old-user-name >>new-user-name >> > > rm old-user-name >> > >> > A safer way to move email is to stop mail daemon, >> > >> > mv old-user-name new-user-name >> > chown new-user-name.new-user-name new-user-name >> > >> > that is, change the ownership to new user otherwise you won't be able to >> > read it and restart the mail server. If you do it otherwise your cat >> > command could mess the email box if MTA was writing into it at the same >> > time. >> > >> > > >> > > Note the two right angle brackets before new-user-name in the cat command. This >> > > is important. It means append. If you only put one of them there then existing >> > > messages for new-user-name will be deleted as the whole file will be replaced. >> > > >> >> -- >> L. C. Robinson >> reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid >> >> People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and >> instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find >> out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see >> "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html > >-- >Rafael > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >