SUMMARY: Big scale GID change

From: Drew Raines <drew_at_phg.mc.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 14:38:47 EST
Drew Raines <drew@phg.mc.vanderbilt.edu>:
>
> I need to change the GID of every user on an E450.
> 
> My plan is to change the appropriate entries in /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group, then issue something to the effect of (in single-user
> mode):
> 
>    find / -group 10 -exec chgrp 1000 {} \;
> 
> Need I be concerned with anything else?  Since these aren't system
> accounts, it seems pretty straightforward.

I was pretty much on-track.  A common suggestion was to make sure I
knew what I was doing with symbolic links, and take a look at chgrp's
-h option.

Thanks to

   David Foster
   Mark McManus
   Jeff Peters
   Darren Dunham
   Mr. Anonymous from astro.su.se

-- 
Drew
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