From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 9:59: 5 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 A81CF15246 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:58:51 -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 SAA19241; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:58:48 +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 SAA22904; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:58:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990428185908.0094d590@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:59:08 +0200 To: W Gerald Hicks From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: Changing a user's UID Cc: "loren" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199904281604.MAA73639@bellsouth.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12.04 28/04/99 -0400, you wrote: >> As for Dan's suspect about being a bad idea changing UIDs, I just did a >> quick search in my Unix manuals and I didn't find nothing. Anyway, me too >> I'm not an expert at all. >Think a bit about the files owned by a user who has their UID changed... If that's the only problem, it's easy to change ownerships. If you want to be sure not to miss something, for each user scan the whole system with find / -uname, chown everything to the new UID, change UID. --- 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