Changing Login name for dbo

From: Rick Price (rprice453@yahoo.com)
Date: 10/29/02 

From: "Rick Price" <rprice453@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 04:31:31 -0800

I have a database on a remote machine that a user created
and assigned his login to dbo. I can create a new user,
drop old ones but have never had to modify the login
name. I can't just drop it and recreate it because dbo
owns objects in the db.

Any help appreciated.

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