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Renumbering UIDs and GIDs?



I've done this several times. moving both groups and userids. 
On 22 May 2002 at 13:36, John Jannotti wrote:
> But, to be fair, I think your second choice would also work.
> 
> > If you cannot conquer your fears, 
> > 
> > find / -gid $oldgid -exec chgrp $newgrp {} \;
> > 
> > Untested, but 99% sure this will work, or at least not get you arrested.

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