Renumbering UIDs and GIDs?

[christoph at linuxsoup.com (christoph at linuxsoup.com)]

If you are running RedHat linux, you should also adjust

	/etc/libuser.conf

There you can defined starting UID's, GID's, home directories, etc...
so that adduser will abide by your new standards...


Kent Borg wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:19:11PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > find / -uid $olduid -exec chown $newuid {} \;
> 
> And the group version...looks good.
> 
> Thanks to all.  
> 
> Now I just need to decide on a coherent numbering scheme, plan out
> what should go where, and then accurately apply my plan to
> /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and all the files on the box.
> 
> 
> -kb, the Kent who will wait until his most recent repair of some
> confused UIDs and GIDs proves itself before embarking on a big
> renumbering.
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