changing the user id

[Randy Kelsoe]

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