SUMMARY: Big scale GID change
2007-12-24 21:38:00
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> I need to change the GID of every user on an E450.
>
> My plan is to change the appropriate entries in /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group, then issue something to the effect of (in single-user
> mode):
>
> find / -group 10 -exec chgrp 1000 {} \;
>
> Need I be concerned with anything else? Since these aren't system
> accounts, it seems pretty straightforward.
I was pretty much on-track. A common suggestion was to make sure I
knew what I was doing with symbolic links, and take a look at chgrp's
-h option.
Thanks to
David Foster
Mark McManus
Jeff Peters
Darren Dunham
Mr. Anonymous from astro.su.se
--
Drew
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