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Re: changing servers' UID/GIDs



> I believe i could quite easily just find files belonging to specific
> user/group and change them appropriately.

Yes, you are right. Ask here again if 'man find' doesn't enlighten you
(I'm too lazy to look up the options right now.)

> But are there some hidden rocks i could run into doing so? What about
>  Debian package management, for example?

No, it works fine. I have done it. Packages use usernames, not uids,
precisely because they cannot ensure that uids are uniform.



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