Script to change uid's

pingu · 03-23-2005, 03:45 AM

I have several distro's on my computer, in all but Fedora my user has uid 501 and gid 501.
Now I changed the gid & uid with usermod, but that command only changes under /home.dir.
I'm trying to fix this:

Code:

[root@killbill ~]# find /mnt/a3/tmp/ -gid 500 |chown peterh:peterh

Result: "too few arguments"
I tried various variants, although it should be pretty easy I can't get it to work.
Any ideas?

druuna · 03-23-2005, 03:51 AM

Hi,

You don't need the pipe:

find /mnt/a3/tmp/ -gid 500 -exec chown <username> {} \;

This also makes sure that filenames with spaces (or other 'funny' characters) in them will be handled correctly.

Hope this helps.

pingu · 03-23-2005, 04:15 AM

Ha! No pipe, that was the fix!
Thanks a lot, it worked fine!