M>> Can i change the USER_ID in the passwd file to something bigger then the
M>> last user_id ?
You can. But it going to do different thing that you possibly mean: if you
change uid field for "user" in passwd file, you just give name "user" to
other uid. Old uid doesn't vanish, all files owned by it remain, etc. Just
logging in under "user" will give different uid from now.
M>> Will it damage my system ?
Depends on what you mean "damage". For your system it won't be any bad -
it doesn't really care what is written in /etc/passwd, everything is uids
inside, not usernames. So really no much changes for it. Just don't use
uids more than 65534 - it may hurt.
But as described above, if you do this to change your friend's uid, you
may not get what you want, and your friend will lose access to all his files.
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