On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I have a need to change a number of system daemons that have UID/GID's
> higher than 500 to something lower. Can I simply make the changes in
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group, or will doing so break various file
> permissions?
Looks like I was able to answer my own question. The system apparently
stores the uid as part of the inode or directory information, so if I
change the uid of the user, I have to then go chown all the files and
directorys to match the new id's. Unfortunately, this isn't going to be
tenable. I suppose I'll just have to live with the high uid's for a while.
:)
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Todd A. Jacobs
Network Systems Engineer
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