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Re: [SLE] UID changes in 9.1
  • From: doc <kd4e@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 18:37:36 -0400
  • Message-id: <40DF4C30.7070200@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Michael Satterwhite wrote:
Does anyone know a way to (a) change the UID of my existing user and (b) globally change the UID of the files created by my user under 9.1. This needs to be done selectively ... if the file is owned by UID 1000, then it needs to be changed to UID 500.

Anyone know how to do this?

Just went through this.

You need to make use of the chown command. I believe the following
is a fair summary of how the command is properly formatted:

chown -R username:groupname /home/username/filename or * for all

doc

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