Run something like this after you change the users uid to see if any files that were owned by the old uid and change them using the second command.
make note of the users uid before you change it.
This will search the entire system for all files that were owned by that user which will now be owned by the old uid.
now change ownership of the file that is owned by the old uid to the new username
The problem is the OP has multiple users that have the same uid, so there's no way to automatically assign one uid to another since there's no context-free mapping.
For any given file, you can't really know which new user to assign the file ownership to because there's more than one possibility with no way to figure out which one is correct. You can probably assume if it's under the user's home directory that it's owned by that user, and maybe some other context-specific information is available, but in general there's no way to tell.
jlliagre's post didn't explicitly state that issue. FWIW, I like m.d.ludwig approach of giving all the users with overlapping uids new uids.
Hi guys,
In the UNIX work environment we have access other peoples directory and sometimes we have full
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Hi to all,
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S
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myblockb
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myblockxx
myblockanything
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