On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 19:49, Johnie Stafford wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:34:35 -0400, Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> t> I've been looking for an answer to a question, but haven't seen anything
> t> that helps me understand what to do...
>
> t> I'm running a mixture of RedHat and Mandrake machines in a Samba
> t> supported network. Too late, I learned that the two distro's do not
> t> default to the same starting number when first creating a user. Since I
> t> am the only user, I have two UID's and its causing me connectivity
> t> problems between the two distro's and Samba.
>
> t> I need to change the user UID from 500 to 501. From my research it
> t> "appears" I may lose ownership, and/or home settings for that user. I
> t> want to avoid this.
>
> t> How difficult is it and what steps need to be taken to successfully
> t> change a user's UID while preserving his home and its contents as owner?
> t> Is this something a newbie to Linux should be able to do? Any pointers
> t> to URL's that tell it as it is are *highly* welcomed. I especially am
> t> interested in cautions and real-life issues that I might not see in the
> t> information I have scanned so far.
>
>
> "find" is your friend. :)
>
> The "find" command will do what you want to do.
>
> First, just to make sure you're only going to affect the files you
> really want to change, run this command:
>
> find / -uid 500 -ls
>
> That will give you a "ls -l" like listing of all the files owned by
> the user with UID 500. If the list seems reasonable, then change the
> UID of your user (by editing /etc/passwd or whatever means works best
> for you). Then run the following command: (<username> is the login id
> of your login account)
>
> find / -uid 500 -exec chown <username> {} \;
>
> When the find command runs, it will run the chown (change owner)
> command on each file that it finds, it will replace the "{}" with the
> file name. Don't forget the "\;" that is important as well.
>
> If the listing that you got with the original command isn't what you
> were expecting, you might need to tweak the arguments to find. Do a
> "man find" for a complete description of what find can do for you.
>
> Johnie
>
Great! I will try this either late tonight or tomorrow morning. I'll
check out the man pages, too. Just knowing where to start is everything.
Thanks, Johnie,
T
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