Re: Change of UID

2013-11-19 Thread Tim
Tim: >> I decided to change the older release up to the newer IDs, rather >> than fight against the system. So, in my case, on the older >> system, I: >> >> edited /etc/password to change my old UID from 500 to 1000 >> edited /etc/group to change my old GID from 500 to 1000 >> chown -R tim:tim /ho

Re: Change of UID

2013-11-19 Thread Ian Malone
On 19 November 2013 09:27, Joachim Backes wrote: >> On 19 November 2013 02:05, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> On 11/18/2013 04:12 PM, Timothy Murphy issued this missive: >>> > edited /etc/password to change my old UID from 500 to 1000 > edited /etc/group to change my old GID from 500 to 1000 >

Re: Change of UID

2013-11-19 Thread Joachim Backes
On 11/19/2013 09:39 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 19 November 2013 02:05, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 11/18/2013 04:12 PM, Timothy Murphy issued this missive: >> >>> Tim wrote: >>> > But on re-installing the system > (which had been in operation for several years) > I found my UID had chang

Re: Change of UID

2013-11-19 Thread Ian Malone
On 19 November 2013 02:05, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/18/2013 04:12 PM, Timothy Murphy issued this missive: > >> Tim wrote: >> But on re-installing the system (which had been in operation for several years) I found my UID had changed from 500 to 1000. I dealt with this by

Re: Change of UID

2013-11-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/18/2013 04:12 PM, Timothy Murphy issued this missive: Tim wrote: But on re-installing the system (which had been in operation for several years) I found my UID had changed from 500 to 1000. I dealt with this by chown -R, which worked fine. I've just gone through a similar change, when

Re: Change of UID

2013-11-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tim wrote: >> But on re-installing the system >> (which had been in operation for several years) >> I found my UID had changed from 500 to 1000. >> >> I dealt with this by chown -R, which worked fine. > > I've just gone through a similar change, when installing a newer release > into a LAN with

Re: Change of UID

2013-11-15 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 November 2013, Timothy Murphy sent: > But on re-installing the system > (which had been in operation for several years) > I found my UID had changed from 500 to 1000. > > I dealt with this by chown -R, which worked fine. I've just gone through a similar change, when inst

Re: Change of UID

2013-11-15 Thread Ian Malone
On 15 November 2013 12:45, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:38:17 + > Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> I found my UID had changed from 500 to 1000. > > When I installed the new system with the 1000 default, > I booted a live CD, mounted the hard disk partitions and > ran a find command to

Re: Change of UID

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:38:17 + Timothy Murphy wrote: > I found my UID had changed from 500 to 1000. When I installed the new system with the 1000 default, I booted a live CD, mounted the hard disk partitions and ran a find command to find all files owned by UID 500 and chowned them to UID 100

Change of UID

2013-11-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
I recently had a hard disk failure. I was able to recover my old /home directory from a backup disk. But on re-installing the system (which had been in operation for several years) I found my UID had changed from 500 to 1000. I dealt with this by chown -R, which worked fine. But I remember reading