[fedora] UIDs and GIDs
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Mon Nov 22 22:06:04 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 16:50, Øyvind Lode wrote:
> hi
>
> if i manually edit UIDs and GIDs in /etc/passwd, /etc/group will that cause
> any problems?
> for instance if i have a user with UID and GID of 515/515 and then change it
> to 510/510.
If you do that you will need to run a script that searches out UIDs and
GIDs across the system and change them to the new numbers.
When editing /etc/passwd you should use vipw. Use vigr to edit the
group file.
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Scot L. Harris
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