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Many thanks to David Trueman for the passwd-batch routine. This fixed the password change. I now have some questions regarding changing an assigned login ID to a custom login id. First, this does work. I can go into that admin pages, enter in the custom login id, and after passwd-batch runs (or whatever it calls), the login is changed. The user directory's are there, and all seems fine. I like the way the user doesn't need to know this ahead of time, their old account is still there, and the new one has the same password. - I do have one problem here, my users will get kicked off the system, instead of getting asked for the new login id. "login" is the problem here, and even if I try it from a shell account, I immediately get disconnected. This is not too bad as long as the user got the message about the new account. I've tried the linux-admin list about this, and the suggestions I got back were all to use "su" instead of "login" Now the real question: The old user account in the password file is changed to ex: aa315:djfkadfasf:9998:4998:bruce proper:/csuite/to_delete:/csuite/bin/shell which appears to be a problem. All deleted users appear to get uid 9998. If I change 2 accounts at the same time to be custom login id's, both users will get the same message in /csuite/to_delete. The message will be the one corresponding to the first 9998 account found when scanning the passwd file. I've checked this out by displaying the $USER variable at the top of the csuite/bin/shell file. Sure enough, it doesn's necessarily match the login id I used. It always shows the first login id with the same uid. Any suggestions on this one?? David ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | David Priebe | President | | System's & Network Analyst | ValleyNet (Renfrew County) Inc. | | Renfrew County Board of Ed. | "Renfrew County's Freenet!" | | priebe@renfrew.edu.on.ca | priebe@valleynet.on.ca | | http://www.renfrew.edu.on.ca | http://www.valleynet.on.ca/ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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