[ale] Changing UID of a user

Randal Jarrett rsj at radio.org
Sun May 7 17:27:00 EDT 2006



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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