Changing my UID and GID

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.5K blaze of typing glory, 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?

This looks like it would do it. Before the change, though, I'd run
a "find / -user goober > /tmp/before". After the change, I'd run
"find / -user goober > /tmp/after". Finally, I'd diff the two files
to make sure nothing had gone awry in the change.

Kurt
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