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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?<br>
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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?<br>
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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. <br>
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Thanks,<br>
Eric Peabody<br>
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