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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:03:06 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Veaceslav Revutchi <sl@zeus.dnt.md>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: migrating users from lunix to freebsd
Message-ID:  <20001101090306.D20567@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001101111801.A81664@zeus.dnt.md>; from sl@zeus.dnt.md on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:18:01AM %2B0200
References:  <20001101111801.A81664@zeus.dnt.md>

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* Veaceslav Revutchi <sl@zeus.dnt.md> [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."


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