[wellylug] Owner and group IDs
E.Chalaron
e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz
Fri Dec 16 09:15:34 NZDT 2005
Thanks Andrej
Will make sure that none is below 500... if so I will have to change my policy
of admin.
BTW what could be a server to manage that ?
Cheers
E
> You can use usermod -u <ID of choice> <username>
> if the ID isn't taken. That will modify /etc/passwd
> and the ownerships on /home/<username> ... if the user
> has other files somewhere else you'll have to e.g. use
> find to modify those.
>
> find -uid <old UID> -exec chown <username> {} \;
>
> If it's a system user I'd suggest you don't :)
>
> > Thanks
> > E
>
> Cheers,
> Andrej
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