[H-GEN] Duplicate uid & gid

[David Jericho]

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On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:22:53PM +1000, Ewan Edwards wrote:
> The best thing I've thought of so far is:
> 1. Remove Postgres.
> 2. Take CVS off line.
> 3. Use chown and find to change the uid and gid of all files owned by the cvs 
> account.
> 4. Change the uid and gid for the cvs account & group in /etc/passwd & 
> /etc/group.
> 5. Re-install Postgres.
> 
> Any better suggestions gratefully accepted.

Well, PostgreSQL only creates files in a few locations, no biggy.

Change the postgresql user, then 

Simply trot on into /var/lib, and 

# chown <newuser>.<newgid> pgsql

Of course, make sure the server has been shut down first.

-- 
David Jericho
Systems Administrator, Plugged In Software

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