[TriLUG] Change GID

[Jeremy Portzer]

James Tuttle wrote:

> 
> On the server the gid of the group who must own all the scripts is 10.
> However, on my local machine, 10 is the gid of uucp.  Since I can't
> change the gid on the server, I was hoping to change the gid of uucp on
> my local machine.  I understand how to change gid with groupmod, but am
> worried that doing so may wreck something.  I mean, if I create a local
> group 'staff' with gid 10, and change the gid of uucp to 20, will the
> files currently with gid 10 be screwed up?

I agree with the other posters that you don't need to change the GID, 
just override them in the smbfs mount options.  But I do have one side 
comment - if you actually have any files owned by group "uucp" do you 
really care?  Do you actually run UUCP?  Do you even know what it is*? 
*grin*

--Jeremy
* It's Unix to Unix Copy and it probably hasn't been used since the 
early 1990s.  I've never actually used it myself, but I do know that it 
involves typing the ! character a lot, so that's cool.  :-)