Why Linux is cool, reason no. 25367

Thu, 31 Aug 2006

I've been slowly working my way through name-change stuff at work. First I had to wait for the marriage certificate to arrive, then there were the Social Security thing and the driver's license thing (which are a story in and of themselves), and then I had to start changing things at work. The new Social Security card was a prerequisite for the work stuff.

So today, more than a month and a half after my marriage, I finally got around to changing my username on my work PC. Since I use Linux, this was incredibly simple. Become root, edit /etc/passwd, edit /etc/shadow, rename home directory, and voilà. Everything works perfectly under the new username, and I don't have to reconfigure a single thing. Linux rocks!

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