UID, GID, and all that

[Tyler Aviss]

Why not just groupmod the primary group to a new gid (1002)
On Aug 18, 2012 8:40 PM, "Peter King" <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:02:14PM -0400, Mel Wilson wrote:
>
> > Create a group 1002 on your new system and add joe to that group?  Would
> > that work?  I did the same thing lately, but because the new user number
> > and group number happened to be the same as the ones on the old disk, I
> > just mounted the old disk and used the files, fat, dumb, and happy.
>
> Fat dumb and happy is the condition I'm aspiring to! But I think it's going
> to take a find-and-chgrp to make it moderately straightforward. Otherwise
> the
> new joe will just happen to belong to two different groups, and the files
> will
> therefore have different permissions/access rights.
>
> Don't know *why* I didn't have the same luck as you -- near as I can tell,
> joe is UID/GID = 1000 on both computers. (Hard to tell on the one that's
> failed, admittedly.) Perhaps it has something to do with how the disc is
> mounted...
>
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