Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:36:44 +0700 From: Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Renumber users and groups Message-ID: <u9zjsb8bkz.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Hello, On my system legacy users come with UID starting from 200 upward, and all users come with GID lower that 100. I know it's not a good idea, but consider that some accounts are over 20 years old! This is not too much a problem with FreeBSD as I can renumber the few FreeBSD services that have a conflicting ID. But now I want to share the user directories with Mac (10.6). On Mac, any id lower than 512 should be reserved for the system. I tried to renumber the conflicting services on Mac OS, but it messes up the system. So I should renumber my users; it's not very difficult to do, but I have over 1TB of user files for 200 users. Is there a clever/fast way to do that (other than find -exec chown)? What pitfall should I avoid? Best regards, Olivier --
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