Hallo everyone,
I have problem with file permisions. Let me describe the nature of the problem. I had a old server installation (9.1) and 3 clients (10.0). At the server, userids starts from 500 (due to upgrated since 6.2!).
Now, the 3 clients are relatively new pcs, (older installation was 9.2), and the userids start from 1000. Is there any way to change (preferably using a bash script) the userids on the server thus to match the 3 clients? I cannot manually change the userids (there are 23 users on the server, 3 linux and 20 windows clients.

Thank you in advanced.
Peter

use this template in bash (replax the x's):

find / -user 50x -exec chown 100x '{}' \;

(the last symbol is a semicolumn)
it looks for all the files of user 50x and changes
ownership to 100x, just do this for all your users

as a test you can list all files of user 50x
find / -user 50x -print

regards

tlowk

Thank you for your perfect solution.
A simple for loop will do the trick. For whom it might concerns, you can use the
find / -group 50x -exec chgrp 100x '{}' ;
to change the group too...