RHEL: How to change a USER/GROUP UID/GID and all owned files
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RHEL: How to change a USER/GROUP UID/GID and all owned files
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# How to change a UID/GID and all belonging files
USER=myuser OLDUID=7773 NEWUID=7774 GROUP=mygroup OLDGID=157 NEWGID=158 # Assign a new UID to USER. Any files which the user owns and which are located in the # directory tree rooted at the user's home directory will have the file user ID changed # automatically. Files outside of the user's home directory must be altered manually. usermod -u $NEWUID $USER # Assign a new GID to GROUP. Any files which the old group ID is the file group ID must # have the file group ID changed manually. groupmod -g $NEWGID $GROUP # Manually change files with old UID find / -user $OLDUID -exec chown -h $USER {} \; # Manually change files with old GID find / -group $OLDGID -exec chgrp -h $GROUP {} \; |
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