[fedora] UIDs and GIDs

Rahul Sundaram rahulsundaram at gmail.com
Mon Nov 22 22:05:19 UTC 2004


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:50:39 +0100, Øyvind Lode <o-lode at online.no> wrote:
> hi
> 
> if i manually edit UIDs and GIDs in /etc/passwd, /etc/group will that cause
> any problems?
> for instance if i have a user with UID and GID of 515/515 and then change it
> to 510/510.

shouldnt be a problem as long as you make sure you chown all files
associated related with the particular ids again




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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram




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