On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, you wrote:
>
> Solving the wrong problem.
>
> Edit /etc/passwd; change James to james; run pwconv (assuming you left
> shadowed passwords enabled); done.
>
> chown operates on UIDs, not usernames; usernames aren't stored in the
> properties of the files either, only the UID's are. So change the
> passwd file and James' files will all appear owned by james. Run "chown
> james foo" without changing /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow first, you'll
> get an error.
>
Oops... I forgot to mention that part... :-) Thanks...
John
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