Usermod will allow you to change the login username. Example: usermod -l rizwan.khan rizwan Where rizwan.khan is the new usename and rizwan is the old. You can find complete documentation to the usermod command by typing the following command: man usermod Hope this helps, Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Muhammad Rizwan > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 8:20 AM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: RE: edit user > > > Thanks for your reply. > > Another question is that, is it possible to edit the user's > login name with .name. For example if i have added user name > as rizwan, but now can i edit this user name as rizwan.khan. > One solution is to edit /etc/passwd file, but i don't want to > do this because in this way User Manager component of Linux > can corrupt. Can you please suggest me other solution? > > Thanks > > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 13:59, Michael Velez wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Muhammad Rizwan > > > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:05 AM > > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > > > Subject: edit user > > > > > > Hello > > > > > > Is it possible to edit full name of system user through > command line? > > > > > > Any idea? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > -- > > > redhat-list mailing list > > > unsubscribe > > > mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > > There are two ways edit the name of a user > > > > If you want to change the full name of user foo: > > > > usermod -c "New Name" foo > > > > Or > > > > chfn -f "New Name" foo > > > > If you need to do more complex pattern changes, you should use the > > stream editor 'sed'. However, I think the above would > satisfy what you need. > > > > Documentation exists on both these commands in the man pages. > > > > Michael > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
