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Operating Systems AIX UID Change Post 41358 by mcateriny on Friday 3rd of October 2003 06:19:43 PM
Old 10-03-2003
UID Change

Currently, I have about 7 servers and the uid for a given person is different on each server. I want to make the uid's the same for a given username on each server. I know how to change the uid via smit, but when I do the previous uid number shows up as the owner for the files of that username. Does anyone have any idea how I can also change the uid at the file level? For example:

Before changing the uid...
-rw------- 1 username staff 3726 Oct 03 13:10 testfile

After changing the uid... There are thousands of files where the uid does not change.
-rw------- 1 211 staff 3726 Oct 03 13:10 testfile

Instead of uid of 211 I want to see the username.

Suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Mario
 

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ldapmodifyuser(1)					      General Commands Manual						 ldapmodifyuser(1)

NAME
ldapmodifyuser - modifies a POSIX user account in LDAP interactively SYNOPSIS
ldapmodifyuser <username|uid> DESCRIPTION
ldapmodifyuser first looks for the right entry to modify. Once found, the entry is presented and you are prompted to enter LDIF data to modify it as you would do using a standard LDIF file and ldapmodify(1). The DN of the entry being modified is already specified : just begin with a changeType attribute or any other one(s) of your choice (in this case, the defaut changeType is 'modify'). OPTIONS
<username | uid> The name or uid of the user to modify. SEE ALSO
ldapmodifygroup(1), ldapmodifymachine(1), ldapscripts(5). AVAILABILITY
The ldapscripts are provided under the GNU General Public License v2 (see COPYING for more details). The latest version of the ldapscripts is available on : http://contribs.martymac.org BUGS
No bug known. August 22, 2007 ldapmodifyuser(1)
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