On Wednesday 14 May 2014 12:33:45 you wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Tito <farmat...@tiscali.it> wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 May 2014 19:01:41 Laszlo Papp wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> is this possible? I am looking for something like "usermod -l" on desktop. > > > > This is actually not supported by busybox. > > So far we are able to add and delete users or groups > > or add users to groups or delete users from groups. > > Is that by design or no one has stepped up yet doing the work?
I suppose nobody needed that feature so far. > >> Alternatively, I have to look into the get/setpwent syscalls? > > > > Yes. You can take a look at libbb/update_passwd.c for inspiration > > and you need to be root to perform the user name change. > > It does not seem to use setpwent/getpwent though. It seems to be > fiddling with manual file opening and so on. Why is it like that? I think editing on a per line basis is easier in that you can simply write the untouched lines to the new file and edit the field of the line of interest without touching other fields. > Cheers, L. > Ciao, Tito _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
