[ale] Changing UID for a user

[Eric Anderson]

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 07:29, John Wells wrote:
> Is there a way to change an user's UID after the account has been active
> for sometime without creating major havoc?  My fear is that if I change
> the UID for the user, all permissions on that user's files will be hosed. 
> Am I correct in this assumption?

If all their files are located in one directory structure and nobody
else has files in that directory or below it, you always could

chown -R myuser directory_name/

after changing the UID. You will also want this user to not be logged in
since the UID is stored in various structures in memory.

-- 
Eric Anderson

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