Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:59:08 +0200 From: Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it> To: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> Cc: "loren" <lore@phile.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing a user's UID Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990428185908.0094d590@relay.alice.it> In-Reply-To: <199904281604.MAA73639@bellsouth.net> References: <Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:44:59 %2B0200." <3.0.5.32.19990428144459.00a61100@relay.alice.it>
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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
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