Linux administration, few interesting tips
- By : La
- Category : Uncategorized
Change user id (uid) and group id (gid) for specific user
- remember current uid, pid for the user you want to do the change
- edit /etc/passwd file and update uid, gid for the specific user
- edit /etc/group file and update git
- stop all software that is run by the user (logoff user)
- find all files that belongs to user and change uid
- find all files (and directories) that belongs to user group and change gid
- re-login
getent passwd | grep myuser
#note two numbers (uid, gid)
#edit passwd, group file and update the old uid, gid to the new one
#find all files with uid (1001 in this example) and change it to 1010, + speed the things up as it sends files in batch
find / -user 1001 -exec chown 1010 {} +
#find all files with gid (1001 in this example) and change it to 1010
find / -group 1001 -exec chown :1010 {} +
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