[TriLUG] Change GID

[Craig Taylor]

See the man page for eg:
usermod -u <newUserId> username

Note that it assumes all files located under the home directory of the user
... not sure what the situation is for uucp. You may want to do a find .
-user uucp -print   to get a list before you run it.

The group can be set similairly.

_HOWEVER_ - There are options in the samba mount as Justis mentions to set
the effective user and group id's... these are probably much more preferable
to be used than monkying with changing user and group id's.

<hostMachine>/SHARENAME /media/<MYMNTPOINT> smbfs
username=<myUserName>,password=<myPassword>,dmask=777,umask=777,rw,uid=<UserId>
0 0

Note : This is the insecure way - see man smbfs for how to list the
username, password in a secure root read-only file.

- Craig Taylor

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:56 PM, James Tuttle <jjtuttle at trilug.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I realize that my last thread, symbolic links and rsync, failed to grasp
> the nature of the error and was thus misnamed.  I discovered that the
> Samba mount command in /etc/fstab was forcing UID 10, which on this
> machine is uucp.  I've found it much easier to work between various
> machines by synchronizing the UIDs and GIDs.  I'd like to change the GID
> of my local group uucp, but am worried about screwing something up.  Any
> tips on how I might change the GID without wrecking my desktop?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
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