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From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
Subject: Re: RCS and Emacs, between machines.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:38:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k7l3lhr9.fsf@wesley.springies.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vfofafc03m.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk

Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> It's a lot of work. It means moving ownership of a large number of
> directories, and parts of my laptop file system. 

If you're using a Unix-like OS, it just means editing /etc/passwd to
change the name while leaving the user id the same.  You can even
leave the home directory under the old name.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
Building contractors DO IT with major erections.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-30 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-27 15:57 RCS and Emacs, between machines Phillip Lord
2002-09-27 16:09 ` Holger Sparr
2002-09-30  9:11   ` Phillip Lord
2002-09-27 16:15 ` Alan Shutko
2002-09-30  9:12   ` Phillip Lord
2002-09-30 13:38     ` Alan Shutko [this message]
2002-09-30 14:58       ` Phillip Lord
2002-10-04  7:21         ` Lee Sau Dan
2002-09-27 17:23 ` Kai Großjohann

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