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I've done this many times but always from root. With no root account, I would: 1) create a 2nd user 'test', set a password, and make 'test' a sudo user 2) logout and login as 'test' 3) let's say the user to change is 'bob' with id 1000 grep bob /etc/passwd should yield: bob:x:1000:1000:Bob:/home/bob:/bin/bash 4) edit /etc/passwd and change the 1st number (the uid) for 'bob' from 1000 to 54321 and save 5) run: sudo find / -xdev -uid 1000 -exec chown bob {} \; -xdev says stay on this filesystem; don't descend into /proc or /sys or /cdrom and so on. This could take awhile. 6) logout from 'test' and login as 'bob' HTH, Bill On 3/5/2018 7:38 PM, Ranjan Maitra
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Hi, I am on a single-account F27 system with an user id 1000. I want to change this user id. From what I understand, I should do the following: sudo usermod -u 54321 <username> However, when I do this, I get: usermod: user <username> is currently used by process 866 I guess that this has to do with the fact that I am logged in (to do this). How do I get around this point? There is no root on the system but I do have sudo access. Separately, I want all my files and directory owned by 1000 to move to this user id (so that I can have access)? Is this automatic or do I have to run chown -R <username> etc? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan |
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