From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 30 3:49:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9CF115926 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 03:49:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host1.ie-online.it [194.133.148.10]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25707; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:49:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA10357; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:49:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990430124931.00aa0520@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:49:31 +0200 To: "loren" From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: Changing a user's uid Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199904301037.2736709.6@names.phile.com.au> References: <3.0.5.32.19990429150924.00a46e50@relay.alice.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10.38 30/04/99 +1100, you wrote: >The only outstanding issue (and it's no big problem) is that the >softlinks don't change the UID to the newuser, but the GID is changed Use the chown's "-h" option: chown -h newuser link --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - Systems Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message