Re: [Testbed-admins] Changing user Unix UIDs

[Robert P Ricci <ricci@cs.utah.edu>]

Sorry for the delay, we hosted the GENI engineering conference this
week, which has been keeping us busy.

There is in fact a script called changeuid for this purpose.

Thus spake Jonathan Walsh on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 05:03:28PM -0500:
> I would like to change the Unix uids for users of an Emulab to match 
> another system (to make cross mounting NFS easier).  I didn't see a 
> handy script to do this... Would it work to just change the uid of users 
> with chsh on both boss and ops, then change the uid_uuid value in the 
> users table?  Or are there other dependencies I am not finding? 
> Obviously I wouldn't want to do this if a given user had an experiment 
> active.
> 
> -Jonathan
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