I've been looking for an answer to a question, but haven't seen anything that helps me understand what to do...
I'm running a mixture of RedHat and Mandrake machines in a Samba supported network. Too late, I learned that the two distro's do not default to the same starting number when first creating a user. Since I am the only user, I have two UID's and its causing me connectivity problems between the two distro's and Samba. I need to change the user UID from 500 to 501. From my research it "appears" I may lose ownership, and/or home settings for that user. I want to avoid this. How difficult is it and what steps need to be taken to successfully change a user's UID while preserving his home and its contents as owner? Is this something a newbie to Linux should be able to do? Any pointers to URL's that tell it as it is are *highly* welcomed. I especially am interested in cautions and real-life issues that I might not see in the information I have scanned so far. TIA T -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
