[fedora] UIDs and GIDs

[Scot L. Harris]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 16:50, Øyvind Lode 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.

If you do that you will need to run a script that searches out UIDs and
GIDs across the system and change them to the new numbers.  

When editing /etc/passwd you should use vipw.  Use vigr to edit the
group file.  


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