Re: Safe change of uid
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
> Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter
> -- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct.
> After looking at man pages and archives, I see that kuser in the past
> has done well creating accounts but not modifying them. Is that still
> true with the version used in Lenny? Is usermod a better option for
> dealing with this situation or would deleting and recreating the account
> -- either using kuser or userdel -- be the simplest and best method?
>
> Please cc me as I am not currently subscribing to the list.
>
Since you only just created the user, I'd just go ahead and delete it
(use:
# cd /var/tmp
# deluser --remove-all-files --backup
then use adduser to create the new user
To be safe, I'd then examine the backup tarball to ensure that nothing
was removed accidentally, before deleting the tarball.
I've never used (or heard of) kuser to know why it created uid 500.
Doug.
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