Tim: >> 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 Timothy Murphy: > Just a note to say that I followed this advice, > and it worked perfectly. > Thank you. You're welcome. That's probably all that most people need to do. If they ran other servers or databases, there maybe personally owned files in other places. It occurred to me, much later, that depending on *when* you edited password and group files, the chown command mightn't correlate the username with the new UID and GID. I'm not sure if that information is cached, or simply read from the file at time of execution. If it doesn't work, there may be some logging out and back in again needed, or to use UID and GID numbers instead of names, in the chown command. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- 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
