On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:29:04PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter > > -- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct. > > After looking at man pages and archives, I see that kuser in the past > > has done well creating accounts but not modifying them. Is that still > > true with the version used in Lenny? Is usermod a better option for > > dealing with this situation or would deleting and recreating the account > > -- either using kuser or userdel -- be the simplest and best method? > > > > Please cc me as I am not currently subscribing to the list. > > > > Since you only just created the user, I'd just go ahead and delete it > (use: > # cd /var/tmp > # deluser --remove-all-files --backup > > then use adduser to create the new user > > To be safe, I'd then examine the backup tarball to ensure that nothing > was removed accidentally, before deleting the tarball. > > I've never used (or heard of) kuser to know why it created uid 500.
I usually (rightly or wrongly) vim /etc/passwd, then find / -uid 500 -exec
chmod 1000 "{}" \; and maybe the same if I have to change the gid.
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