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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Greetings,
The title pretty much says it all. I've snooped everywhere and can't find anything on this. Since our organization went to numeric usernames, using the u|U option for ps returns no processes. Example passwd entry:
320074:DjZAJKXun8HBs:10129:6006:Joe Y:/cadhome/analysis/jy:/bin/bash... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: crimso
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2. Post Here to Contact Site Administrators and Moderators
I know username is the unique id for my unix_dot_com account, but is it possible change it ? should i raise any special request to moderators ? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Arun_Linux
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I am new to using unix and am struggling with a script i am writing. What i am trying to do is get a user to enter a username, check the original file i created with username and pin to see if their is a corresponding entry. Next ask the user to enter the pin and see if this matches... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: somersetdan
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4. Post Here to Contact Site Administrators and Moderators
Is it possible to change my username in this site or is thre a way to delete my account and then create a new one with a diffrent user name (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: floresr
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5. AIX
Hey,
i'm using AIX 5.3 which authenticates against a Microsoft Active Directory.
Everything works fine but like everytime there's a problem.
I created users with usernames with more than 8 characters.
Now i tried do login on AIX with these users, which didn't work. The login-window... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: damn-86
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6. Post Here to Contact Site Administrators and Moderators
I want to change my username how can I (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: alnita
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Is there a way to grab the username who is running the shell script. I am trying to do is:
$ who am i
Peterd123 pts/5 Mar 20 09:30 (H0021563.xyz.com)
Is there a way to display only the user name above, which is"Peterd123".
Thanks
Raj (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: rkumar28
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8. Linux
dear Linux expert,
I am using Fedora R5
how to use tar to archive /var to a test_var.tar and compressing it?
how to delete a user? just remove the line in /etc/passwd?
and then what is the procedure to create a new user ?
many thank (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: zp523444
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
There was a problem when creating a username. which was to be mapped in nis. but we encountered a problem and decided to delete the username. So instead of using the userdel command we acidentally deleted the username entry in the passwd file, which does not have backup. So upon recreating... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vivek_scv
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