Need to change uid and gid

[Rick Sewill]

On Friday, November 11, 2011 10:58:01 PM Rick Sewill wrote:
> On Friday, November 11, 2011 04:22:52 PM Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > In the process of upgrading from Fedora-15 to Fedora-16, my uid and gid
> > have both been changed from 500 to 1000.  I maintain a "mirror" of my
> > system as backup using rsync, so in order for the mirroring to continue
> > properly the uid and gid in the mirror filesystem have to be changed to
> > match the main one.  There's no problem with my home directory, just use
> > "$ chown --recursive 1000.1000" in the mirror of my home directory.
> > However there are a few odd files, like my crontab
> > file /var/spool/cron/jonrysh which needs to have its uid (but NOT its
> > gid) changed.
> > 
> > Where is a convenient script to do this?  There must be one, since this
> > is essentially what was done in the upgrade from Fedora-15 to Fedora-15.
> > 
> > Many Thanks - jon
> 
> I would suggest
> find . -uid 500 -exec chown -h owner \;
> find . -gid 500 -exec chgrp -h group \;
> 

Oops...It's late.  My syntax for the find commands is bad.
I forgot the {} to specify the file selected by the find command.
find . -uid 500 -exec chown -h owner {} \;
find . -gid 500 -exec chgrp -h group {} \;

> The -h option says do the chown or chgrp to the symbolic link
> instead of following the symbolic link.  Without the -h option,
> the symbolic link is followed, causing the symbolic link ownership
> to not be changed.