How to change user / group numbers in passwd/group?

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Mon Jun 18 04:04:59 UTC 2007


At 11:38 PM -0400 6/17/07, Eric wrote:
>At 07:22 PM 6/17/2007, Tony Nelson wrote:
>
> >> File a bug against those packages.  They should use IDs in the system
>range.
>
>Good evening, Tony.
>
>Done.  I see that there has already been a bug filed against tclhttpd.  I
>filed one against dbmail.

Good.


>Turns out that there weren't many files owned by those two "users".  I
>uninstalled dbmail which took the dbmail user away with it, then I
>uninstalled tclhttpd which DIDN'T take the tclhttpd user away, so I had to
>"userdel" that.  Then the "find" commands as you listed showed a few files
>and directories, mostly in /var/spool/mail, that I removed.

I'd expect that most of the files having those IDs would go away when their
packages are removed.


>All seems OK now ... so far ... :-)

It probably is OK.  Doing this sort of thing takes some getting used to.
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