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Old 02-23-2010
LDAP user script
I am converting all users on all AIX systems to LDAP users. As such, I must delete the local user, and recreate the user via LDAP. When I delete the local user, all files and directories owned by the local user will revert to the UID. I need a script to find all files and directories belonging to a uid, and convert all to the new LDAP userid.
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Old 02-23-2010
Code:
find / -user <olduid> -exec chown <newuid>

Of course what would better is to define the user in LDAP with the same UID as they had in the local files account...
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