Migrating user accounts from F14 to F17

[Klaatu]

> On 10/07/2012 09:49 AM, Klaatu wrote:
> >> On 10/06/2012 09:02 PM, Klaatu wrote:
> >>> 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
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> kde mailing list
> >>>> kde at lists.fedoraproject.org
> >>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde
> >>>> New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
> >>> 
> >>> - klaatu
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> kde mailing list
> >>> kde at lists.fedoraproject.org
> >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde
> >>> New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
> >> 
> >> Klaatu:
> >> 
> >> I just tried that on the user account I could best afford to lose. It
> >> worked. I can still log into it, but now it's visible in Users and
> >> Groups.
> >> 
> >> Now: I know how to move that dummy user "out of the way" temporarily, to
> >> make room for my main user account. (I'd probably want to log in as
> >> someone else when I did that.) But: how do I vest "administrative
> >> privileges" in an existing user? And how do I modify a group? Is
> >> "groupmod" the appropriate command?
> >> 
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >> 
> >> Temlakos
> > 
> > Groupmod would allow you to change gid's, so i'm not sure if that's what
> > you want.
> > 
> > You probably want more usermod. To make user klaatu's primary group
> > "klaatu", and to append supplementary group memberships - like wheel,
> > most significantly for admin powers:
> > 
> > usermod -g klaatu --append -G wheel,foo,bar klaatu
> > 
> > I think that should do it.
> > 
> > - klaatu
> > _______________________________________________
> > kde mailing list
> > kde at lists.fedoraproject.org
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde
> > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
> 
> The "wheel" group is one of the most valuable additions to Linux. If you
> create your first user and check the Admin box, the installer makes that
> first user a member of "wheel" and "dialout." Now I can understand
> "wheel." But "dialout"?
> 
> Anyway, I added my main account to "wheel" and "dialout." Once I did
> that, that main account had admin privileges. And even sudo privileges,
> which I have sought for a long time. Now maybe someone can tell me what
> privileges come with membership in the "dialout" group.
> 
> Temlakos
> _______________________________________________
> kde mailing list
> kde at lists.fedoraproject.org
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde
> New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org\

I could be wrong, but I think dialout is about modems and faxes and stuff. 
Maybe someone else knows better, but I think it's probably safe to leave your 
users out of that group unless you actually do use PPP and so on.

- klaatu