I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup. However, under RedHat I was UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without changing something.
I could, of course, chown the whole lot to cr:cr (i.e. 1000:1000 in this Debian system) but that means if I ever crash this installation and have to put my RedHat disk back I'll have to change it all back again, so I'm a little reluctant to do that (and also, I'm nervous about changing ownerships on entire directory trees....) For now, I've given myself access by adding a line in /etc/group cr1::500:cr which as I understand it makes Debian think all the files with UID/GID of 500:500 belong to a group 'cr1' and I, 'cr', am a member of that group. (It doesn't work on any files copied from the old RH /home/cr/ which have 'owner' permissions only, unless I su root or change permissions, but those are just backups so I can live with that). However, it would be more sensible I think if I was User 500 in both systems. Is there any safe legal way to change my UID from 1000 to 500? Or, failing that, can I do it by using 'adduser' to create a new user, say 'cr2', as user 500, then when I've got 'cr2' properly set up and everything works, delete user 'cr' (with UID 1000) and rename user 'cr2' to 'cr'. And, more importantly, are there any hidden snags in any of the above which will crash my whole system or lock me out of it? Regards cr ... slowly getting this sytem into shape... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
