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>Chapter 11. Managing user accounts</TD
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>11.3. Changing user properties</H1
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> There are a few commands for changing various
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properties of an account (i.e., the relevant field
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in <TT
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>/etc/passwd</TT
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>chfn</B
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> Change the full name field.
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>chsh</B
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> Change the login shell.
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>passwd</B
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>Change the password.
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The super-user may use these commands to change the properties
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of any account. Normal users can only change the properties
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of their own account. It may sometimes be necessary to disable
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these commands (with <B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>chmod</B
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>) for normal users,
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for example in an environment with many novice users. </P
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> Other tasks need to be done by hand. For example, to
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change the username, you need to edit
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<TT
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>/etc/passwd</TT
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directly (with <B
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>vipw</B
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>, remember). Likewise, to add
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or remove the user to more groups, you need to edit
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>/etc/group</TT
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> (with <B
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>vigr</B
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>). Such
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tasks tend to
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be rare, however, and should be done with caution: for
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example, if
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you change the username, e-mail will no longer reach the
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user, unless you also create a mail alias.
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