On Friday 20 June 2003 21:36, cr wrote: > I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup. However, under RedHat I was > UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner > 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without changing > something. > (snip) Thanks all who posted replies. I had a fair idea how to do it but I just wanted some assurance that I wasn't going to strike some horrible snag I hadn't thought of and bend my system. cr