Re: changing user-name from passwd

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Feehan
UK Jaiswal wrote: > Hi, > > In a linux box, I had a user by the name of user1. I had to change the > name of user1 to newuser1, so I changed the entry of user1 in passwd > file and group file. Having done this I tried to change the password of > newuser1 by "passwd newuser1" but I got the foll er

changing user-name from passwd

2000-08-10 Thread UK Jaiswal
Hi, In a linux box, I had a user by the name of user1. I had to change the name of user1 to newuser1, so I changed the entry of user1 in passwd file and group file. Having done this I tried to change the password of newuser1 by "passwd newuser1" but I got the foll error message: linux2:~# passwd