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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: Petre Bandac <petre@kgb.ro>
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Subject: Re: messing with uid/gid in passwd
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:07:37PM +0200, Petre Bandac wrote:

> 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)

Do you mean on the BSD machine?
There should be no problem _if_: 
  The UID & GID do not conflict with another existing user or group.
and
  You get all of the incidences of the use of that user's UID & GID
  changed on all of that user's files.

But, if it conflicts or you miss some files somewhere, it can
come back and bite you.   Use find(1) with -group and then with -user
to look for the files.

////jerry

> 
> thanks,
> 
> petre
> 
> -- 
> 
> Petre Bandac
> 
> Network Scientist
> 
> -
> petre@kgb.ro
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