changing the user id

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:04:59PM -0500, Randy Kelsoe 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

When done do check the entire system with "find" for files that belong
to the old UID.

You should not need to pay attention to GID but check it too.


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