On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:04:11AM -0600, Bill Gee wrote: > I think I can do this in two steps. > 0) backup, backup, backup!
This is already running and you've tested the restore process, right? > 1) On the server - use "find" to find all files owned by UID=500. Chown > them to UID=1000. Repeat for gid=500. Yes. > 2) Tricky - On the workstation, boot to non-gui. Login as root. Repeat the > same two "find" commands as on the server. Edit the /etc/passwd and > /etc/group files to show the new UID and GID numbers. Yes. Although order does not matter -- personally I'd make the account change first. Also, you can use `usermod -u` and `usermod -g` (possibly both at once) and this will correctly change ownership of all files in the home directory (but not outside of that). > What does this do to the shadow files? Are there other places I need to > look for the UID and GID numbers? shadow (and gshadow) are name based, so shouldn't be a problem. You may need to change some spool files in /var in addition to in /home. Nothing else *should* be using the numeric values. (Possibly some tar files?) -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos