On Saturday 19 June 2004 14:18, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 19 June 2004 13:05, Jacob S. wrote: > > Why not simply copy/paste the relevant portion of /etc/group > > between machines so that you know the gids are the same across all > > the machines? This would also save you the time of having to create > > all the extra groups on each machine. I create/edit groups using > > vim all the time and haven't had any problems. > > That would work fine for the groups added later, but not for the > initial gids. "users" is the one to worry about. By the time the > machine starts and I'm able to edit /etc/group, there are a slew of > files that have been created as a member of the initial ids. That's > where the problem is. I'd like to be able to specify the gids for the > files created during installation.
And, as a variation on this question, is there any easy way to correct the situation when it is wrong? I am always having to chmod 777 things to be able to complete copies or whatever over nfs, and then to chown -R places I`ve worked so that files are not owned by messagebus just some number. It is a mess that I have got used to, but would like to sort out. But how would I find all the files owned by me, for example, to change them to an altered UID. And is editing /etc/passwd enough to alter a UID -- I seem to remember there is another database as well. Perhaps someone has written a script to do this? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
