On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, L. C. Robinson wrote: > 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. Mailboxes are stored as files with the same name as the userid, at least when using sendmail, so it may still be necessary to ensure that old mail is preserved.