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On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:54:16 +0200 |
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Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> On Friday 21 July 2006 12:02, Arnau Bria wrote: |
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> > could someone explain which is the way of changing user id and that |
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> > user doesn't lose its files? |
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> You can use find to chown all files owned by the user to the new uid. |
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> Untested example (suppose old uid is 100): |
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> # usermod -u 120 cyrus |
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> # find / -user 100 -exec chown cyrus \{\} \; |
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I was thinking in something like this, but I supposed there should be a |
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"better" way... |
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thanks for the reply. |
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Arnau Bria |
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http://blog.emergetux.net |
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La vida es una aplastante derrota tras otra hasta que |
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acabas deseando que se muera Flanders. |
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~Homer J. Simpson~ |
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