Den 06. nov. 2011 12:21, skrev Tim:
> On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 19:57 +0100, Frode wrote:
>> my uncertainty revolves around whether there are other things that
>> could be a problem when changing the uid/gid for an existing account
>> in F15, e.g. files in /etc or other places that might need to be
>>
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 19:57 +0100, Frode wrote:
> my uncertainty revolves around whether there are other things that
> could be a problem when changing the uid/gid for an existing account
> in F15, e.g. files in /etc or other places that might need to be
> modified as well. (I know /etc is not supp
On 06/11/11 02:57, Frode wrote:
> there are other things that could be a problem when changing the uid/gid
> for an existing account in F15, e.g. files in /etc or other places that
> might need to be modified as well. (I know /etc is not supposed to hold
> user specific info; just using it as an e
Den 05. nov. 2011 19:29, skrev Frode:
> Den 05. nov. 2011 18:35, skrev Ian Chapman:
>> On 06/11/11 01:00, Frode wrote:
>>
>>> The other option would be to change uid/gid for all files and modify F15
>>> accordingly. Would this require me to change more than uid/gid for all
>>> the files and user ac
Den 05. nov. 2011 18:35, skrev Ian Chapman:
> On 06/11/11 01:00, Frode wrote:
>
>> The other option would be to change uid/gid for all files and modify F15
>> accordingly. Would this require me to change more than uid/gid for all
>> the files and user accounts?
>>
>> I guess 'chown -R newUID:newGID
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 18:00 +0100, Frode wrote:
> I guess 'chown -R newUID:newGID ~/*' would be the wrong way to do
> this, if there are files with other values for oldUID/oldGID?
You might consider 'chown -R --from oldUID:oldGID newUID:newGID ...'.
This will affect only files belonging to oldUID:
On 06/11/11 01:00, Frode wrote:
> The other option would be to change uid/gid for all files and modify F15
> accordingly. Would this require me to change more than uid/gid for all
> the files and user accounts?
>
> I guess 'chown -R newUID:newGID ~/*' would be the wrong way to do this,
> if there
In preparation for F16, I wonder what the best approach to handling the
new uid/gid limit is. I'm not upgrading, so the new limit will be in
effect after installing the new Fedora.
I always keep the old version for at least the duration of the next
release cycle, so I can go back in case of tro
