On 02/04/2017 03:50 AM, Christopher Head wrote: >> >> Not a bad idea... we chould ship that safe-chown utility, and then >> tell users how to use it to fix their UIDs. The draft that I wrote up >> was for the "fixed UID with random fallback" model, but said utility >> could still be useful for people who want to change their running >> systems to use the same UIDs that would have been chosen by default. > > Are you sure that said utility isn’t simply “chown --from”? >
One would hope that if they implemented it, that they did it safely -- but alas it's not standard.
