From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 16 15:05:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D8416A400 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:05:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petre@kgb.ro) Received: from mx1.rdsbv.ro (mail.rdsbv.ro [193.231.189.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89D6013C471 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:05:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petre@kgb.ro) Received: (qmail 24011 invoked by uid 89); 16 Feb 2007 15:04:56 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 24006, pid: 24008, t: 0.0891s scanners:none Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (82.78.148.249) by mx1.rdsbv.ro with SMTP; 16 Feb 2007 15:04:56 -0000 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:07:37 +0200 From: Petre Bandac To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070216170737.38f9febf@localhost> Organization: my own organization X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.2 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: messing with uid/gid in passwd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:05:14 -0000 hallo I have the following problem I hourly rsync data from another computer to my bsd machine and the transferred files have different uid that the user I'd like to use them (preserve their initial uid/gid) is there a problem if I manually change the uid of some (already created) users in passwd (like for mysql, www, postfix) thanks, petre -- Petre Bandac Network Scientist - petre@kgb.ro