On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 15:24 +0000, Mark Rogers wrote: > Supplementary question: is there any way to avoid the re-use of user > IDs? If nothing else it seems like a bit of security risk.
By default, the ID shouldn't be reused. Not sure why it is being, or even if it is. The alternative is not to delete the account but just lock it (changing the password is a good way to do that). > Also, is there a quick way to find all files owned by a specific user? > "find / -user XXX" works but takes a long time on a large system. Find is probably the quickest way to do it. You could limit your search to just directories they might have changes (i.e. not /etc/, /sbin/, etc). The problem is that when you search something like that you need to go over every file, get the owner and then compare it to what's given. Plenty of iteration in there. Steve _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
