changing the user id
Randy Kelsoe
randykel at swbell.net
Mon Aug 9 20:04:59 UTC 2004
Jack Howarth wrote:
> What is the easiest way to change the numerical value
>of a user's user id under Fedora Core 2? I don't see the
>option to do that under the graphical Users and Groups
>System Settings utility? Or do I just have to manually
>edit /etc/passwd and /etc/passwd~ to change the user id
>and then chown -R on the user's home directory
>
>
man usermod
usermod -u <uid> username
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