How to change user / group numbers in passwd/group?
David Timms
dtimms at iinet.net.au
Sun Jun 17 22:30:35 UTC 2007
Eric wrote:
>
> I am in the process of moving the content of an FC2 server to F7. In
> the process, I have to establish some new users with user and group
> numbers 501 and 502.
>
> Unfortunately, F7 in its infinite wisdom decided to assign 501 to user
> "tclhttpd" and 502 to user "dbmail" (whatever they might be).
> (vigorously begging the question of WHY!!! in the world it did that...)
> :-(
They seem to be system account names, which in the past have ended up
below 500, and I don't have those account names on my F7.
What web server and mail packages did you install ?
>
> If I can't assign 501 and 502 to the users and groups they were on the
> FC2 machine, a LOT of permissions problems will be created in a fairly
> large and complex database and file structure.
>
> What is the "right" way to assign different numbers to existing users
> like "tclhttpd" and "dbmail"?
usermod --help
> I know I can just go in there and edit
> passwd and group but no doubt that will cause all sorts of unknown
> problems elsewhere, for resources and files that depend on 501 and 502
> being assigned to "tclhttpd" and "dbmail". So, is there a "right" way
> that updates everything else to whatever new user numbers I assign?
I found a script a while ago to achieve the changing of userid and grpid
on files/directories. This worked well in bringing the id's inline with
another server. I can't find it at the moment.
DaveT.
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