On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:36 PM, David <bouncingcats@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 19 May 2014 14:38, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:The usual way to do this is to use the usermod command -u and -g to
>
> The problem is that the numerical id of the (my) username is different in
> the two systems. In DebOld the id is 1001 in Deb64 it is 1000.
change UID and GID for all the /etc database files and files in the
users home directory, . This is what you should have done on the Deb64
system. Read the man page warnings first. So you could undo what you
did and then run:
# usermod -u <newu> -g <newg> <username>
Heh! So I learnt something -- usermod.
I finally got it running by discovering a rogue asoundrc.
Renamed that and now its working.
Just make sure that you dont use a <new> value that collides with one
that was already in use in that database. Specific example, dont do
'usermod -u 1001 -g 1001 <username>' on the Deb64 system if 1001 is
already in use on the Deb64 system.
(all examples are untested)
You can see the numeric values with 'ls -n'
Check /etc/passwd and /etc/groups, and check first with
# find / -user <newu>
# find / -group <newg>
The <...> values can be symbolic or numeric.
To change the ownership of files outside of the home directory you can
either use 'find' like:
# find <topdir> -user <oldu> -group <oldg> -execdir chown -c
<newu>:<newg> '{}' \;
Or you can use 'chown' recursively like
# cd <topdir> && chown -c -R --from=<oldu>:<oldg> <newu>:<newg> *
Neat commands. Will stash them away!
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