From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 9: 3:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D6937B479 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:03:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eA1H36t11539; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:03:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:03:06 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Veaceslav Revutchi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: migrating users from lunix to freebsd Message-ID: <20001101090306.D20567@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001101111801.A81664@zeus.dnt.md> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001101111801.A81664@zeus.dnt.md>; from sl@zeus.dnt.md on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:18:01AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Veaceslav Revutchi [001101 01:18] wrote: > hi > > on the linux machine users start with uid 500, on freebsd > they normaly start with 1000. Will that be a problem > if i move them over to bsd with preserving the same uid? Doesn't look like there will be a problem, but I'm not 100% sure, since uid is just a number one could write a script to add 500 to the uid in the password file and a perl script to traverse a directory tree to do the same for each file in case there are problems. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message