dave N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I used to run Fedora and now all the files on my data drives are uid >500 and gid 500. > >Now under Debian the same user name and password I'd previously had >are uid 1000 and gid 1000. Though I can access the files on the drive >I can't do anything with them except as root. > >How can I rectify this? chown -R 1000:1000? > >This'll cause problems with the lost+found as well as any .Trash >folders, should I then change the uids and gids back?
chown -R will work, but may be a little too indiscriminate. You can be more discriminating by find(1) and only changing the UID of files that are 500, and a GID of 500. $ find /path -uid 500 -print0 | xargs -0 chown 1000 $ find /path -gid 500 -print0 | xargs -0 chgrp 1000 You can combine all this into one command if all files with UID 500 also have a GID of 500, but if not, the above is safer leaving you to remap other IDs as you need to. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
