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Change uid and gid of user/group (linux)

I have a whole bunch of folders/files with the owner of dspam and the group of dspam

Currently, id dspam shows:
uid=104(dspam) gid=105(dspam) groups=105(dspam)

I need to set the UID and GID to something above 500. How can I do so?

Tintin

usermod -u 501 dspam
groupmod -g 501 dspam

ygoutham

normally all the groups are listed in /etc/groups and the users are listed in /etc/passwd

check both the files to see which number (in terms of gid and uid is available) above 501 and select one. and use the above command to change it to that uid or gid. simplest would be to delete the user and add it again if you are not sure about what to do. any new user added to the system would always get added beyond the 500 range when done through the command line interface.

acrocat

ASKER

Problem is, if I run the commands above, I then get:

drwxr-xr-x 2 104 105 4096 Oct 7 21:51 templates

instead of

drwxr-xr-x 2 dspam dpsam 4096 Oct 7 21:51 templates

ygoutham

whenever you want to change the group of a particular directory and the files contained therein (with the subfolders inside the entire tree)

chown -R dspam:dspam /some/directory/templates

this will change it to dspam and set the group also to dspam

acrocat

ASKER

Right - but I have files and folders all over the filesystem owned by dspam - is there a way to go through all of them in a reasonable way?

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ygoutham

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