Re: how to change the name of root?

2003-11-19 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
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 When I  get admin emails from  my remote boxes, or  send messages from
 them, they are from root or charlie root. How do I change this?

I would use vipw(1) to edit the password database.
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Re: how to change the name of root?

2003-11-19 Thread Julien Gabel
 When I  get admin emails from  my remote boxes, or  send messages from
 them, they are from root or charlie root. How do I change this?

 I would use vipw(1) to edit the password database.

Or you can use the pw(8) command this way :
# pw user mod -n root -c WhatYouWant

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Re: how to change the name of root?

2003-11-14 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [13-11-03 14:41 -0800]:
| When I get admin emails from my remote boxes, or send messages from them, 
| they are from root or charlie root. How do I change this?
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| Chip
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chsh


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Shantanoo
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how to change the name of root?

2003-11-13 Thread chip . wiegand
When I get admin emails from my remote boxes, or send messages from them, 
they are from root or charlie root. How do I change this?

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Re: how to change the name of root?

2003-11-13 Thread Mike Maltese
 When I get admin emails from my remote boxes, or send messages from them,
 they are from root or charlie root. How do I change this?

chpass will open up your default editor and allow you to change the Full
Name of the account.

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Re: how to change the name of root?

2003-11-13 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 13 November 2003 02:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 When I get admin emails from my remote boxes, or send messages from them,
 they are from root or charlie root. How do I change this?


Did you try changing the name in the passwd files?

Kent

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