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Old 08-10-2005
renumbering user id

Other than deleting and recreating a user can a users id number be changed?
I need to have my user id the same on more than one system.
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Old 08-10-2005
i think u can assign specific user id via sam. but im not familiar how to do it via command line.
 
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