edit user

[Muhammad Rizwan]

Yes, i already check man page for usermod.
The problem is Linux dont allow users with dot. like rizwan.khan.
This is the result of your suggested command:
[root at Rizwan root]# usermod -l rizwan1.khan rizwan1
usermod: invalid field `rizwan1.khan'

Any idea, how can i add users with dot without editing /etc/passwd file
myself.

Thanks



On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 00:11, Michael Velez wrote:
> 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 at redhat.com 
> > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] 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 at redhat.com 
> > > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] 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
> > > > 
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> > > 
> > > 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
> > 
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