Re: [Testbed-admins] Changing user Unix UIDs

[Jonathan Walsh <jonathan.d.walsh@lmco.com>]

No problem, I hadn't gotten to the point of trying this yet due to the 
other problems I was having, I will use that script instead (and not 
bother writing one ;) ).

Thanks

-Jonathan


Robert P Ricci wrote:
> 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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