Allegedly, on or about 15 November 2013, Timothy Murphy sent: > But on re-installing the system > (which had been in operation for several years) > I found my UID had changed from 500 to 1000. > > I dealt with this by chown -R, which worked fine. I've just gone through a similar change, when installing a newer release into a LAN with mixed releases, and wanted the same usernames to have the same UIDs and GIDs, everywhere. It just makes things so much easier. I decided to change the older release up to the newer IDs, rather than fight against the system. So, in my case, on the older system, I: edited /etc/password to change my old UID from 500 to 1000 edited /etc/group to change my old GID from 500 to 1000 chown -R tim:tim /home/tim/ chown tim:tim /var/spool/mail/tim You had the first two steps done for you. If you don't have local mail, you won't need the last one. I think I've covered everything that I need to do. Anybody care to pitch in and tell me something I've forgotten to do? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
