Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:33:02AM -0700, Erik Troan wrote: > > > Having to do a find and chown() across the entire system would take a > > noticeable amount of time, and I don't want to start doing that unless > > there is a real benefit to doing so. I'd love to know how debian has handled > > uid changes in the past. > > Hehe - we have an "update-passwd" program which modifies /etc/passwd resp. > /etc/group accordingly. Quoting the manpage: > > BUGS > update-passwd is not very smart yet. It only updates the > databases, it makes no attempt to assure system consis > tency. If a uid/gid you're using on your system is elimi > nated or changed, it could cause trouble. > > I would say that we could just run a find over the whole system with the > exception of /home.
I've not looked at the usermod manpage of late, but I thought it had an option that would do this in a more thoughtful manner? -- Julie.
