> in any case, i think the original poster was refering to the creatin of
> new users, not to the changing of a UID for old users. In this case
> (creation) all these problems do not exist anyways.
He is right.
I want to build a web interface to add/delete/change users.
but due to security resons
of note: the order of doing the changes (i.e. do i first
change the UID in the passwd file and then chown all the old files, or the
other way around - is of no importance - things might get screwed up
anyways, due to a program trying to open the file under this user's ID,
while using one UID, an
"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote:
>
> 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&
JOO>> That should not be a problem. Your only limited by how the user id's
JOO>> are stored internally. Does anyone know if they are 32-bit integers or
JOO>> 16 bit integers? If they are 16-bit unsigned then you can go as
JOO>> high as 65535.
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/posix_types.h:
type
Mike wrote:
>
> Hi.
> Can i change the USER_ID in the passwd file to something bigger then the
> last user_id ?
> i meen :
> usr1:x:510
> usr2:x:6000
> usr3:x:511:::
>
> Will it damage my system ?
>
> Mike
Hi Mike,
That should not be a problem. Yo
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Mike wrote:
No, it will work fine, just keep it smaller than UID_MAX (65535) and don't
forget to chown his directory to the new ownership if he already existed.
--Ariel
> Hi.
> Can i change the USER_ID in the passwd file to something bigger then the
> last
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
Hi.
Can i change the USER_ID in the passwd file to something bigger then the
last user_id ?
i meen :
usr1:x:510
usr2:x:6000
usr3:x:511:::
Will it damage my system ?
Mike
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