Renumbering UIDs and GIDs?

[Jerry Feldman]

Yes, that is true. Also, changing ownership requires that you be root. 
find / -uid $olduid -exec chown $newuid {} \;

I would suggest that you proceed by first creating the new userid and new 
group id. 
On 22 May 2002 at 14:50, Ron Peterson wrote:

> 
> > > > If you cannot conquer your fears, 
> > > > 
> > > > find / -gid $oldgid -exec chgrp $newgrp {} \;
> 
> Yeah, but just make sure that $newgrp doesn't already own files for which you
> also want to change ownership.

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