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Sysadmin told to spend 20+ hours changing user names, for no reason

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Re: I guess I am very lucky .....

"And for the record, it is not only possible, but reasonably painless to change a user's login, under GNU/Linux NIS with all of /home on an NFS share. User rebecca logs out before lunch, user becky logs in after lunch. But I wouldn't do more than one at a time ....."

Yes, but the real problem in the article is that Rebecca Jones and Ron Johnson would both be able to log in as rj and get their correct, individual environments when they'd done sto.

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