[BlueOnyx:12869] Renaming user accounts

[Eric Peabody]

Some user accounts are named with common names found in dictionaries and 
these are more likely to be affected by password guessing attacks.  We 
would like to rename such user accounts and would like to know the best 
method for doing so since the UI doesn't support this action on a 
5106R.  Usually I would just edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and rename 
the home directory but in BlueOnyx the symbolic link and its target need 
to be renamed.  And the virtusertable needs to be updated.  That's 
obvious, but what about the object store?

Running cceclient and entering, "find User name='xxx' it returns the 
object id and "get <id>" displays the values stored for that user.  Then 
entering "set <oid> name="new_name" looks like it does the trick, but 
can someone please confirm this is the correct way to do this?  Is there 
anything else to do?

Or is it recommended to create a second account, copy the data from the 
old home directory to the new?  That might be simpler in the end.

Thanks,
Eric Peabody

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