From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans mailing list <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] UID and GID renumbering
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000720165619.P3081@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200007201443.KAA00115@smtp1.fas.harvard.edu>; from Russ Cox on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:43:53AM -0400
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:43:53AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
>
> Just how dangerous is it to renumber the entries in /adm/users?
> I need to know what kind of crises I may trigger, broadly.
>
> The numbers in /adm/users are used in the
> on-disk structures in both kfs and the real
> file server. Unless you're going to rewrite
> the file system, you probably need to leave it as is.
>
Let me ask a different question, then: I installed the 3ed
distribution effectively using the existing 2ed /adm/users, with the
result that /usr/glenda is reported as owned by adm. I think this is
not serious, but what I can't quite pinpoint is which of upas=10001
and upas=10003 (old /adm/users) is the case.
My proxima replacement for bootes is another candidate for
straightening out, it was =2 in the 2ed system, and it's not even in
the /adm/users file in the 3ed distribution, understandably, since the
file is not used by the file server.
++L
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