Change GID for a user

Johnyp · Guru Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 301

Hey all
How can i change GID for a user?

I've tried usermod -G foo bar , where foo is a gruop who's id i want to assign to the user bar, but that just adds the user bar to group foo.

And another question - how can i find out GID for a particular group?

thank you
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Kaboosh · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:36 am Post subject: groupmod

Do a groupmod -g [NEW_GID] [GROUP_NAME]

This is required because users don't have GID's - they have groups which have the same name as their usernames (a RedHat invention).

Note: Any files with permissions assigned to that group number will retain the old group number - permissions must be reassigned manually!

You can reassign these permissions en-masse using find / -group [OLD_GROUP_GID] -exec chgrp [NEW_GROUP_NAME] \; as root

Johnyp · Guru Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 301

Thanks for the answer, but i'm still confused.... :oops:

kashani · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 3:38 am Post subject:

usermod -g 1001 vmail

That should take care of you assuming the vmail group already exists.

kashani
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Johnyp · Guru Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 301

Ahhh... got it!

Thank both of you guys!
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