Changing my UID and GID

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> I may need to change my UID and GID so I can share /home between two
> different distros. Will this procedure do the trick?
>
> 1. Edit /etc/passwd and change the UID there
> 2. Edit /etc/group and change the GID there
> 3. Do 'chown -R newuid:newgid /home/goober'
>
> Is there anything more to do? Any problems this will present?

Assuming that you don't have any UID or GID conflicts, that should do the
trick.

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