On 22/01/2013 05:32, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:31:11 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing FreeBSD
user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000?
Of course, this would work. But then all existing files of the existing
FreeBSD would be without owner.
The current user is: rocketmouse
The uid is : 1001
Isn't it possible to change the uid to 1000?
This would cause that the owner wouldn't be rocketmouse anymore, but
still 1001. I then could run chown -R for /home/rocketmouse to switch
from 1001 to back to rocketmouse = new uid 1000.
You would need to do two changes: First in the password database,
with chsh (tidy way) or by editing the /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd
and /etc/group files plus rebuilding the database with pwd_mkdb
(untidy way) to assign rocketmouse = 1000 on FreeBSD.
Could you do this with pw(8)?
# pw usermod rocketmouse -u 1000
checking first there isn't a uid 1000 already.
Then chown -R
Chris
Then you would also have to "promote" this change to the file
system, as all the files still belong to a user with UID 1001.
Use chown -R with the new numerical value of 1000.
Result: Your user would have the UID 1000 on all systems, so
all the "low level functions" would behave similarly.
Or another idea would be to create a new user with the uid 1000 and then
to add rocketmouse to the group of this user. I guess this is what you
already recommended.
Yes, that would also work. You only have to make sure that
group permissions are valid, and the "access permission" is
provided in /etc/group properly.
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