From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 3:49:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D932214FFB for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 03:49:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990428105128.KBAM6531620.mta2-rme@wocker>; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 22:51:28 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "loren" Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 22:49:29 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Changing a user's UID Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199904282043.2431962.6@names.phile.com.au> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990428105128.KBAM6531620.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 Apr 99, at 20:44, loren wrote: > This question may not be particularly unique to FreeBSD, but > I'm running Version 3.1 and am trying to find a way to change > a user's UID. I have been reading "Unix System Administration Handbook" and I *seem* to recall them saying that changing a UID is a bad idea. In fact, they recommend against even reusing UIDs. But I have no practical experience in this area and perhaps someone else can tell you more than that. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message