Changing Usernames

[sbrad]

I'm trying to finish moving my accounts to a new server, but there are a few that start with numbers. Nick said in a previous post this wasn't allowed anymore, and the username would have to changed.
My question is, how the hell do you do this? WHM certainly won't let you do it. I don't mind doing it by hand, but I don't know where all to change it.

 

[feanor]

change /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow entries, just jump to the line with the username with the number, and change the username to the new name.....

then copy their /var/cpanel/users file to the new form of the user (within that same directory).....

A few cgi-type items may fall apart which are cpanel related, if they had them configured, but that is to be expected when you completely change a username.

Reset permissions over their root directory when complete to make sure all is well (and recurrsively)
And then /scripts/updateuserdomains
and
/scripts/mailperm

Make sure that your /etc/proftpd.conf and /etc/proftpd/USERNAME or /etc/proftpd/passwd.vhosts files are correct (/scripts/ftpupdate).... and make sure your apache config has the correct paths in conjunction with the new username for the account.


g00d luck

 

[moronhead]

I haven't tried it before; I'm not sure what happens to MySQL databases when a username's changed. There's also the small matter of changing the user's directory in /home.