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Date:      Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:49:31 +0200
From:      Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it>
To:        "loren" <lore@phile.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Changing a user's uid
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990430124931.00aa0520@relay.alice.it>
In-Reply-To: <199904301037.2736709.6@names.phile.com.au>
References:  <3.0.5.32.19990429150924.00a46e50@relay.alice.it>

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At 10.38 30/04/99 +1100, you wrote:
>The only outstanding issue (and it's no big problem) is that the
>softlinks don't change the UID to the newuser, but the GID is changed

 Use the chown's "-h" option:

 chown -h newuser link

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  Stefano Riva
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  Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl
  Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451
  Email sriva@alice.it


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