Migrating user accounts from F14 to F17

[Klaatu]

I'd try something like:

su -c 'usermod --uid 1000 username'

-klaatu

> Everyone:
> 
> I hadn't been paying close enough attention, obviously. Turns out that
> sometime between F14 and F17, user accounts are supposed to have UIDs of
> 1000 or higher. But all mine were in the 500s.
> 
> Now, I created them all right. I gave them legitimate Unix names. I can
> even make Samba users out of some of them. But I can't see them in the
> Users and Groups section. Nor could I make them admins in the "Create
> User" dialog. I had to create another user, a dummy user, just to have
> someone with admin privileges.
> 
> What is the most elegant solution? Must I create all new accounts and
> migrate the contents of my home directories from one user to another?
> (And do a recursive chown on all of them as I work?) Or is there another
> way to achieve the goal of having user accounts with decent UIDs? (Short
> of setting up another box, that is. And even that is problematic: I
> can't seem to get Samba to work properly as a server, though I made it
> work well enough as a client.)
> 
> Temlakos
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- klaatu