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sleipnir214
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Users aren't owned. They are owners.
What in specific are you wanting to do?
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What in specific are you wanting to do?
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they don't want to delete the id, the manager wants to take the id over with their name as owning the id. In AIX I would normally update /etc/passwd and change the gecos field, but i'm new to linux and not sure how to do that. Also how do i get a help menu on linux..? like man pages for aix..?
sleipnir214
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Man pages? Issuing the command "man [command]" will do it. Some Linux distributions also support the command "appropos [topic]".
Check out "man usermod". That will allow you to change a username, keeping everything else intact.
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Check out "man usermod". That will allow you to change a username, keeping everything else intact.
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On some linux distro's you can also use the "info [command]"
as in:
info usermod
You need to take care when changing ownerships as this user may have had scripts, crons etc that was run by himself and they may complain at a file ownership change.
Otherwise, I guess that you could do something similar to this:
1) usermod -e <todays date> <user> # to expire that users login.
2) check in /var/spool/cron # and check for any cronfile belonging to that user and check it for clues to what he/she may have croned.
3) check /etc/groups #to confirm that no other users are members of his/her group, else they may start complaining.
4) cd /path/to/home/of/that-user and do: chown -R newuser:newusersGID /path/to/home/of/that-user # this will pass owneship of all files for that user to newuser
That should do it ?
Good Luck
Laurie.
as in:
info usermod
You need to take care when changing ownerships as this user may have had scripts, crons etc that was run by himself and they may complain at a file ownership change.
Otherwise, I guess that you could do something similar to this:
1) usermod -e <todays date> <user> # to expire that users login.
2) check in /var/spool/cron # and check for any cronfile belonging to that user and check it for clues to what he/she may have croned.
3) check /etc/groups #to confirm that no other users are members of his/her group, else they may start complaining.
4) cd /path/to/home/of/that-user and do: chown -R newuser:newusersGID /path/to/home/of/that-user # this will pass owneship of all files for that user to newuser
That should do it ?
Good Luck
Laurie.
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