On Sunday 22 June 2003 00:21, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (20/06/03 21:36), 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? > > Have a look at man usermod and man adduser (group) - It would be worth > creating a new user on both systems with the same UID and GID and use that > account to rearrange everything. Don't forget, if you're using samba, to > change smbpasswd. > > Clive
That was easy! 8) Thanks! usermod was just what I needed. Edited /etc/group by hand then changed UID with usermod. My old copy of 'Using Linux' doesn't seem to mention it (or if it does, I missed it). cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
