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Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64
Date 2024-09-12 16:20 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 14:50:23 +0100, Joe wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:35:25 -0500
> Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> wrote:
> > Relevant man page to have 'root' edit a user's login name?
> > 
> Looks like usermod, according to the first page Google shows for:
>   debian change user name

I prefer vipw(8).  But that's just me.

You'll also want to read passwd(5) and shadow(5).

I would highly recommend *not* being logged in as the user whose name
is being changed at the time.  Do a direct root console or ssh login.
Unless you have a second unprivileged account that can su/sudo to root
to make the changes to the first account.

You'll probably want to rename the home directory, so mv(1) applies.

If the user has a crontab file, you may want to find that and rename
it as well.

If you're using /var/mail for user mailboxes, you may want to rename
the user's mailbox file too.

There may be other things I can't think of right now.

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Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 13:50 +0200
  Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-12 14:00 +0200
    Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-12 14:10 +0200
    Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 14:50 +0200
      Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-12 15:10 +0200
        Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 16:10 +0200
          Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-12 17:00 +0200
            Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 17:30 +0200
            KDE, switching users (was: Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on  Lenovo R64) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-09-12 18:40 +0200
  Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-09-12 14:20 +0200
    Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 15:50 +0200
  Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-09-12 14:20 +0200
    Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 15:40 +0200
      Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-09-12 15:50 +0200
        Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 17:20 +0200
      Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-09-12 16:00 +0200
        Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-09-12 16:20 +0200
          Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 16:50 +0200
        Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 17:00 +0200
          Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-09-12 18:10 +0200
      Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-13 10:20 +0200
        Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-13 11:00 +0200
          Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-13 12:20 +0200
            Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-09-13 14:10 +0200
              Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-13 15:00 +0200

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