Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-23 Thread cr
On Sunday 22 June 2003 00:21, Clive Menzies wrote: On (20/06/03 21:36), cr wrote: I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup.However, under RedHat I was UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it

Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-23 Thread cr
On Sunday 22 June 2003 00:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In linux.debian.user, you wrote: I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup.However, under RedHat I was UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it

Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-23 Thread cr
On Friday 20 June 2003 21:36, cr wrote: I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup.However, under RedHat I was UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without changing something. (snip) Thanks all

Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/06/03 19:13), cr wrote: On Sunday 22 June 2003 00:21, Clive Menzies wrote: On (20/06/03 21:36), cr wrote: [snip] However, it would be more sensible I think if I was User 500 in both systems. Is there any safe legal way to change my UID from 1000 to 500? Or, failing that,

Changing UID's?

2003-06-21 Thread cr
I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup.However, under RedHat I was UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without changing something. I could, of course, chown the whole lot to cr:cr (i.e.

Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-21 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup.However, under RedHat I was UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without changing something. I could, of course,

Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/06/03 21:36), cr wrote: I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup.However, under RedHat I was UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without changing something. I could, of course,

Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 05:36, cr wrote: I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup.However, under RedHat I was UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without changing something. I could, of