Cool, what sysadmin utils, where do I get them? All that's around now is linuxconf, powerful, but not everything common by far, although it'll do virtual pop automatically, and manage sendmail, a bear to do by hand. At 08:32 PM 12/12/01 -0700, you wrote: >On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Rafael 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. > >On the contrary. The filesystem does not store user names in the >directory structure. Do "ls -ln" on your home dir, to see what >there really is. Now do "id", to see what your id numbers are. >So when you change a username, it just changes the appropriate >mapping table (/etc/passwd), which file utilities like "ls" use. >Now, if you want to change user id numbers -- that can get hairy; >but there are automated ways to do that too. And take my word >for it, that IS standard Unixen behavior. > >BTW, I was reading the new Red Hat manuals about the new sysadmin >utilities last night, and I was impressed. They have some very >readable tutorials, much of which would apply to any >distribution, particularly the text mode utilities, and it is all >available online at their website for free. In particular, you >would want to look at the new Red Hat Customization Guide, which >includes the Kickstart chapters I was originally interested in, >for the recent enhancements (you saw some quotes from it in my >recent posts about kickstart). I've been using Unix and then >linux for nearly 20 years, and I'm still learning new stuff from >well written guides like that. > >LCR > >-- >L. C. Robinson >reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >