How to change user / group numbers in passwd/group?
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Mon Jun 18 04:04:59 UTC 2007
At 11:38 PM -0400 6/17/07, Eric wrote:
>At 07:22 PM 6/17/2007, Tony Nelson wrote:
>
> >> File a bug against those packages. They should use IDs in the system
>range.
>
>Good evening, Tony.
>
>Done. I see that there has already been a bug filed against tclhttpd. I
>filed one against dbmail.
Good.
>Turns out that there weren't many files owned by those two "users". I
>uninstalled dbmail which took the dbmail user away with it, then I
>uninstalled tclhttpd which DIDN'T take the tclhttpd user away, so I had to
>"userdel" that. Then the "find" commands as you listed showed a few files
>and directories, mostly in /var/spool/mail, that I removed.
I'd expect that most of the files having those IDs would go away when their
packages are removed.
>All seems OK now ... so far ... :-)
It probably is OK. Doing this sort of thing takes some getting used to.
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