On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 05:36, cr wrote: > 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?
adduser can take an argument specifying uid so you can deluser cr and then adduser cr --uid 500 in slackware you always get asked. Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
