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From: doug@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Douglas W O'neal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: changing gid and uids
Message-ID: <5123@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 2 May 90 15:49:17 GMT
References: <11615@unix.SRI.COM> <1397@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: doug@jhunix.UUCP (Douglas W O'neal)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <1397@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> emcguire@cadfx.ccad.uiowa.edu (Ed McGuire) writes:
>    find $homedir -user $olduid -group $oldgid -print\
>     -exec chown $newuid.$newgid '{}' ';'

You should also remember to change /var/spool/mail/username to be owned
by the new uid.gid.

-- 
Doug O'Neal, Distributed Systems Programmer, Johns Hopkins University
doug@jhuvms.bitnet, doug@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu, mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!doug 
Like many of the features of UNIX, UUCP appears theoretically 
unworkable... - DEC Professional, April 1990