I'd try something like: su -c 'usermod --uid 1000 username' -klaatu > Everyone: > > I hadn't been paying close enough attention, obviously. Turns out that > sometime between F14 and F17, user accounts are supposed to have UIDs of > 1000 or higher. But all mine were in the 500s. > > Now, I created them all right. I gave them legitimate Unix names. I can > even make Samba users out of some of them. But I can't see them in the > Users and Groups section. Nor could I make them admins in the "Create > User" dialog. I had to create another user, a dummy user, just to have > someone with admin privileges. > > What is the most elegant solution? Must I create all new accounts and > migrate the contents of my home directories from one user to another? > (And do a recursive chown on all of them as I work?) Or is there another > way to achieve the goal of having user accounts with decent UIDs? (Short > of setting up another box, that is. And even that is problematic: I > can't seem to get Samba to work properly as a server, though I made it > work well enough as a client.) > > Temlakos > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org - klaatu _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
