Hello again mldvx4,

I was thinking exactly like this. That your script will do something like that.

Well an alternative solution would be to remove the user Linux::usermod->del(username); (I assume the module removes the user from all groups) and after that create a new user Linux::usermod->add(username, password, uid, gid, comment, home, shell); with the updated name. That could be a workaround (assuming there are no errors on this one as well). Not to forget you can assign the user to the desired groups 

@users = qw(user1 user2 user3);
Linux::usermod->grpadd(groupname, gid, "@users")

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. But again this is just theory I have not tested it so I do not know if there is a bug in all these commands.

Let us know at the end what solution you came up with. BR / Thanos

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In reply to Re^3: Linux::usermod - user name ... already exists by thanos1983
in thread Linux::usermod - user name ... already exists by mldvx4

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