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Operating Systems AIX UIDs being overwritten immediately Post 302116714 by Perderabo on Monday 7th of May 2007 07:23:46 PM
Old 05-07-2007
Don't delete the user until you don't care if the uid is reused or not. Just lock the account and delete the files.
 

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setuidgid(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      setuidgid(8)

NAME
setuidgid - runs another program under a specified account's uid and gid. SYNOPSIS
setuidgid account child DESCRIPTION
account is a single argument. child consists of one or more arguments. setuidgid sets its uid and gid to account's uid and gid, removing all supplementary groups. It then runs child. setuidgid cannot be run by anyone other than root. EXIT CODES
setuidgid exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account named account, if it cannot setgid, if it cannot setuid, or if it cannot run child. Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child. SEE ALSO
supervise(8), svc(8), svok(8), svstat(8), svscanboot(8), svscan(8), readproctitle(8), fghack(8), pgrphack(8), multilog(8), tai64n(8), tai64nlocal(8), envuidgid(8), envdir(8), softlimit(8), setlock(8) http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html setuidgid(8)
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