Re: [CentOS] Changing UID numbers

2019-02-21 Thread Bill Gee
On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 9:17:34 AM CST Chris Schanzle wrote: > On 2/16/19 12:14 PM, Bill Gee wrote: > > ...After the usermod programs ran, I then did a "find -uid=500" with an > > exec option to change ownership. Repeat for changing GID. It found a few > > dozen files that were not

Re: [CentOS] Changing UID numbers

2019-02-21 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <2f86eabc-697f-4f57-3a0a-f2e5da13d...@nist.gov>, Chris Schanzle via CentOS wrote: > My guess is you used something like > >   find -uid=500 -exec chown 1000 {} \; > > This will start a chown process for each file, changing only one file at a > time.  That's a lot of work the

Re: [CentOS] Changing UID numbers

2019-02-20 Thread Chris Schanzle via CentOS
On 2/16/19 12:14 PM, Bill Gee wrote: ...After the usermod programs ran, I then did a "find -uid=500" with an exec option to change ownership. Repeat for changing GID. It found a few dozen files that were not in my home directory. On the server I ran the two "find" commands against the

Re: [CentOS] Changing UID numbers

2019-02-16 Thread Bill Gee
Hello everyone - Update: Many thanks to Matt Miller for the tip on usermod options. That worked very well! I did not know those options existed and would never have thought to look for them. After making and testing backups, I started with my main workstation. Rebooted in runmode=3, then

Re: [CentOS] Changing UID numbers

2019-02-14 Thread Matthew Miller
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.

[CentOS] Changing UID numbers

2019-02-14 Thread Bill Gee
Hello everyone - I have a question regarding UID and GID numbers. First, a bit of background: Yesterday I suffered a complete power failure. My UPS batteries ran everything for an hour, but that was not long enough. My CentOS6 server shut itself down, just like it should. When the power