[LUNI] userdel, useradd madness

[Richard Reina]

Hi David,

Thanks for the quick response.  I'm not sure I follow you.  There is only one user, kellie.  I deleted her and need to add her back and I was hoping I could do so with the same UID.  Are you saying I should not?

Thanks,

Richard




David Terrell <dbt at meat.net> wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:48:19PM -0700, Richard Reina wrote:
> Yes.  However, kellie used to have uid 515 and I need for her to have it again.
> 

Two users sharing the same userid is bad.  You have to renumber 
the other user with 515, chown all the files they should own to
their new userid, and then re-add kellie.

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