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70.157.130.141 at 20:09, 8 December 2007

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Jimbo at 07:26, 18 December 2004

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Dave at 04:40, 18 December 2004

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There are many ways to modify existing users on your system, depending on what you want to do; the easiest is to edit the relevant files manually.

To change a user's shell, use [[chsh]].

To change a user's name, edit [[/etc/passwd]].

To change a user's login name (account name,) you can also edit [[/etc/passwd]], but the easy (and safe!) way to do it is to add a new user and move the user's files over to the new user and chmod and chown everything to that new user.

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 To change a user's shell, use [[chsh]] or [[pw]] '''usermod [username] -s [path to new shell]'''.
-To change a user's name, edit [[ /etc/passwd]].
+To change a user's name or primary group, edit [[ /etc/passwd]].
 To change a user's login name (account name,) you can edit [[ /etc/passwd]] and [[ /etc/master.passwd]] and recompile them using [[pwd_mkdb]], but another easy (and safe!) way to do it is to add a new user and move the user's files over to the new user and chmod and chown everything to that new user.
-To change the user's groups, edit [[/etc/group]]. [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/users-groups.html]
+To change the user's member groups, edit [[/etc/group]]. [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/users-groups.html]
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	To change a user's login name (account name,) you can edit [[ /etc/passwd]] and [[ /etc/master.passwd]] and recompile them using [[pwd_mkdb]], but another easy (and safe!) way to do it is to add a new user and move the user's files over to the new user and chmod and chown everything to that new user.		To change a user's login name (account name,) you can edit [[ /etc/passwd]] and [[ /etc/master.passwd]] and recompile them using [[pwd_mkdb]], but another easy (and safe!) way to do it is to add a new user and move the user's files over to the new user and chmod and chown everything to that new user.
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		+	To change the user's groups, edit [[/etc/group]]. [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/users-groups.html]

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-There are many ways to modify existing users on your system, depending on what you want to do; the easiest is to edit the relevant files manually.
+There are many ways to modify existing users on your system, depending on what you want to do; you can even edit the relevant files manually, but beware: the actual files referenced by the system aren't the plaintext editable files, they're compiled database files, so you'll need to use [[pwd_mkdb]] if you try to edit [[ /etc/master.passwd]] directly.
-To change a user's shell, use [[chsh]].
+To change a user's shell, use [[chsh]] or [[pw]] '''usermod [username] -s [path to new shell]'''.
-To change a user's name, edit [[/etc/passwd]].
+To change a user's name, edit [[ /etc/passwd]].
-To change a user's login name (account name,) you can also edit [[/etc/passwd]], but the easy (and safe!) way to do it is to add a new user and move the user's files over to the new user and chmod and chown everything to that new user.
+To change a user's login name (account name,) you can edit [[ /etc/passwd]] and [[ /etc/master.passwd]] and recompile them using [[pwd_mkdb]], but another easy (and safe!) way to do it is to add a new user and move the user's files over to the new user and chmod and chown everything to that new user.