Tim wrote: >> 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 Just a note to say that I followed this advice, and it worked perfectly. Thank you. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- 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
