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.
cu
Torsten
