[H-GEN] Duplicate uid & gid

[Ewan Edwards]

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On Tuesday 22 July 2003 02:39 pm, David Jericho wrote:
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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.

Sounds good.  Thanks!


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