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[ale] Changing UID of a user
- Subject: [ale] Changing UID of a user
- From: rsj at radio.org (Randal Jarrett)
- Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 17:27:00 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <007901c6718a$8d22a000$008410ac@win2kpro1> <[email protected]>
If your system has it, vipw would probably be the best tool to
edit /etc/passwd with.
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 14:43 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> Ryan Fish wrote:
> > Is changing the UID of a user as simple as setting it to the new value in
> > /etc/passwd, saving the file then using chown to update ownership on the
> > affected files/directories?
>
> Yes
>
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