[ale] Changing UID of a user

Ryan Fish FishR at bellsouth.net
Sat May 6 23:58:51 EDT 2006


Is changing the UID of a user as simple as setting it to the new value in
/etc/passwd, saving the file then using chown to update ownership on the
affected files/directories?

 

So far Google hasn't returned anything of value in my searches.

 

Thank you.

-Ryan

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