On 01/23/2012 05:35 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>>> The new lower limit of 1000 for normal user and group IDs is another
>>> issue. The current user has IDs 500 and has rather
>>> a lot of files that I want to keep.
>>> Fedora's documentation says to use a kickstart file to keep 500.
>>
>> How?
>> If it's documented anywhere, I can't find it.
>> From what I've read, %post won't work.
>> IDs from the 500-999 range will already have been allocated.
>> 'Tain't obvious that %pre would work either.
>> If %pre runs before everything else, /etc won't exist yet.
>
> I'm in a similar situation, where I have UID 1000 on my Fedora laptop,
> and 500 on the CentOS server.
> I'm wondering if there is any simple way of changing my CentOS ID to 1000?
>
> I'm thinking of setting up a new CentOS user with ID 1000,
> moving all my files to the new user,
> removing my old user entry,
> and finally changing the username of the new user back to me.
>
>
This may not be the "right" way to do it, but on each of my older servers and workstations, I logged in as root and modified /etc/passwd and /etc/group for all users (not that many) then ran something like "find / -uid old_uid -exec chown user_name {} +" and something similar for group ID.
I had resisted doing that until I upgraded the third machine to Fedora 16. Now it is done and I won't have to concern myself on subsequent Fedora 16+ installs.
What were they thinking?
Emmett
Emmett
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