19 May
2014
19 May
'14
11:06 a.m.
On 19 May 2014 14:38, Rustom Mody <rustompmody(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The problem is that the numerical id of the (my) username is different in
the two systems. In DebOld the id is 1001 in Deb64 it is 1000.
The usual way to do this is to use the usermod command -u and -g to
change UID and GID for all the /etc database files and files in the
users home directory, . This is what you should have done on the Deb64
system. Read the man page warnings first. So you could undo what you
did and then run:
# usermod -u <newu> -g <newg> <username>
Just make sure that you dont use a <new> value that collides with one
that was already in use in that database. Specific example, dont do
'usermod -u 1001 -g 1001 <username>' on the Deb64 system if 1001 is
already in use on the Deb64 system.
(all examples are untested)
You can see the numeric values with 'ls -n'
Check /etc/passwd and /etc/groups, and check first with
# find / -user <newu>
# find / -group <newg>
The <...> values can be symbolic or numeric.
To change the ownership of files outside of the home directory you can
either use 'find' like:
# find <topdir> -user <oldu> -group <oldg> -execdir chown -c
<newu>:<newg> '{}' \;
Or you can use 'chown' recursively like
# cd <topdir> && chown -c -R --from=<oldu>:<oldg>
<newu>:<newg> *