"Janine C.Buorditez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> is there some tool that organizes a systems users and their uids? and perhaps
> updates all files belonging to a user with his/hers new user settings?

I don't know of a tool like this.  That's probably because it wouldn't
be generally useful; to keep backups useful, sysadmins generally bend
over backward to avoid changing UIDs or GIDs.  If you need to do it
once, brute force with find(1) and chown(8) is pretty easy.

> also, what about a decent adduser script? enteruser complains about my `ninja'
> class which i've set up in login.conf and as default class in pw.conf. also it
> doesn't seem to make any use of my defaultshell set to tcsh.

adduser(8) handles all of those issues fine in my experience.  And
it's just a perl script, so for my own specialized needs, I've had no
problem just hacking up a customized version.

> after a while the directory listing of my /var/mail looks like this:
> 
> total 14
> -rw-------   1 iyun     mail          584 Sep  7 13:44 alliance
> -rw-------   1 power    1006          574 Jun 22 12:49 gunn
> -rw-------   1 1011     ninja         594 Aug 27 19:55 iyun
> -rw-------   1 sharizan postfix         0 Jun 22 11:41 jasmin
> -rw-------   1 janine   mail         1470 Sep 17 14:05 janine
> -rw-------   1 postfix  1006            0 Jun 14 01:00 nughaud
> -rw-------   1 pgsql    pgsql           0 Sep  6 00:03 pgsql
> -rw-------   1 thug     ninja         575 Jun 21 21:08 power
> -rw-------   1 jasmin   ninja         590 Jun 13 16:25 sharizan
> -rw-------   1 postfix  postfix       578 Jun 21 21:08 thug
> 
> now, this is all a mess. i'm tired of manual cleanups. any ideas people?

How did those group names (and user names) change in the first place?
I've *never* seen that happen, except when it was something I screwed
up myself.

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