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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>Moving this to tech@ since it's not really committee-related.<br>
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<p>Renaming accounts is a fairly nightmarish process that is
probably easiest done by creating an entirely new account, then
moving files and dispense credit over to the new one.</p>
<p>It might be possible to rename the account in AD, although that
would require further testing, and would likely cause more
problems than it would solve.<br>
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<p>In recent history I was able to "rename" <i>dragonxdoom</i> to <i>donsuth</i>
by creating a new account under the correct name, then copying the
files across to a directory under the new account's homedir, then
<tt>chown</tt>ing everything so that the permissions were correct.
Note that simply moving the old homedir to the new location
doesn't work since it breaks Windows roaming profiles completely
(even if the permissions are correct, it will say "access denied"
when you try to login under the new username). As for dispense,
simply transferring the old account balance to the new account
should be sufficient, and it doesn't seem like deleting dispense
accounts is implemented anywhere. Card logins for the snack
machine will probably remain associated to the old account unless
you can somehow (re)associate them with the new account, which may
be a problem.<br>
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<p>On another note, the <tt>/etc/bind/domains/primary/zonemake.py</tt>
script on mooneye currently seems broken, so it's not possible
currently to refresh member domains and virtualhosts. It might be
related to possible (now fixed?) duplicate account UIDs but I
haven't had time to debug.</p>
<p>- [FVP]<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/3/19 10:48 pm, James Andrewartha
wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, David Adam wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">If you would like to rename your account, you can ask a Wheel member or
email <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wheel@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au">wheel@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au</a>. (I don't know that we've ever actually done
this, but <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://serverfault.com/a/929192/10056">https://serverfault.com/a/929192/10056</a> makes it sound like it's
possible.)
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We did it with Alwyn's account, but that was 18 years ago in the age of NIS.
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