On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:09:54PM +0100, Joan Tur wrote: > > > That's the problem. What is the safest way to change the id number to match > > the host machine? > If I'm not wrong you'll have to delete the user and create it again using -u > parameter... Overkill. As root, vipw to fix the user's ID then: chown -R user:group /home/user