changing a chars name

From: Romulus.. Imp of Phoenix Mud (malice@epix.net)
Date: 02/21/96 

I am trying to generate a function to change a players name
while the person is online for unacceptable names according
to our name policy. I got the function to change the name
online but when the player logs in he has to use the old name to log 
into the mud, but comes into the mud as the new name. 

I looked in save_char in db.c, but I was kinda dumbfounded 
on how to go about making the name save in the pfile.. and make
char_file_u char->name  the same as ch-player.name

Below is the function I used to modify the name. My big question is
what to add to save_char to cause the names to be the same.


ACMD(do_change_name)
{
   struct char_data *vict;
   char tmp_name[20];

   half_chop(argument, arg, tmp_name);

   if (!*arg) {
      send_to_char("Change Who's name to What?\n\r", ch);
      return;
   }

   if (!(vict = get_char_vis(ch, arg))) {
      send_to_char("No such person around.\n\r", ch);
      return;
   }
  
   if (IS_NPC(vict)){
     send_to_char("This is Not for mobs OR Playing around!\n\r", ch);
     return;
   }

   if (strlen(tmp_name) > 10){
    send_to_char("Names can not be more then 10 letters!\n\r", ch);
    return;   
   }

   sprintf(buf2, "You change %s's name to %s.\n\r",GET_NAME(vict),tmp_name);
   send_to_char(buf2, ch);
   send_to_char("You better not be fooling around with this!\n\r", ch);
   sprintf(buf2, "(GC) %s changed %s's name to %s",GET_NAME(ch),GET_NAME(vict),tmp_name); 
   mudlog(buf2, BRF, MAX(LEVEL_IMMORT, GET_INVIS_LEV(ch)), TRUE);

   CREATE(GET_NAME(vict), char, strlen(tmp_name) + 1);
   strcpy(GET_NAME(vict), CAP(tmp_name));
}

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