On 07/03/2011 09:09 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> On 7/3/2011 8:59 PM, JD wrote:
>> How about just modifying the user's uid gid (while su'ed to root):
>> usermod -u NEW-UID -g NEW-GID LoginName
>> chown -R NEW-UID.NEW-GID ~LoginName
>> exit su shell
>> Log out
>> and log back in.
>>
>>
> I was assuming that uid shouldn't be changed once committed to a user
> (this was from 1980's and may be incorrect now ... or even back then but
> I didn't know it)?
>
Yes you can change UID and GID.
I was stating it within the context of
user has just installed Linux, and just logged in
for the first time. This would be the time to
open a terminal (gnome terminal), and su to
root and runt the command.
You can actually do it at any time, but I thought
that you would want the UID and GID to match
your other linux distro, so at first login would be
a good time to do it.
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