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| DATE | Feb 27, 2008 |
| TICKET | #336380 |
| STATUS | Closed |
| SUBJECT | Change User ID and Group ID in Leopard |
| CAT | Computers, Operating Systems, Applications or Connected Devices |
| TYPE | Operating System Features, Bugs and Problems |
| DESC | Apple |
| DESC | 10.5.X (Leopard) |
| PLATFORM | Apple Macintosh (Intel) |
| MODEL | iMac and a macbook |
| PROC | |
| RAM | |
| DRIVE | |
| NAME | rod |
| USERNAME | hrmiller |
| TECHNICAL | Little Experience |
| ISSUE | Some Troubleshooting |
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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Change User ID and Group ID in Leopard
hrmiller - Feb 27, 2008 - 5:23 pm
3 home-business machines:
- Sun Ultra5 running Solaris 9, long history (lots of archived customer info, C-source tools) on this machine. primary account is rod, uid 3308, gid 10.
- iMac running Tiger. primary account is rod, uid 3308, gid 10.
- Macbook running Leopard. primary user is rod, uid & gid not 3308 and 10.
After some study of dscl I thought I changed the uid for user rod in the Macbook to 3308. Apparently not.
In the Macbook /Users/rod there is a subdirectory rod (/Users/rod/rod). That subdirectory is the mount point for rod's directory
hierarchy on the sun. Works fine on the iMac where I was able to use
netinfo to change rod's uid and gid to match his originals on the sun.
On the macbook, when I mount the sun's directory hierarchy at /Users/rod/rod, I cannot cd into subdir rod nor can I view the contents of subdir rod. I notice that the owner of rod before the mount is daemon, and the owner after the mount is 3308. So it looks like I changed the UID of the subdir rod rather than of the user rod.
The goal is that on the macbook/leopard, user rod's gid and uid are 3308 and 10, and that I can mount and read/write in the sun directory hierarchy that is mounted at /Users/rod.
Help, please.
Rod
- Sun Ultra5 running Solaris 9, long history (lots of archived customer info, C-source tools) on this machine. primary account is rod, uid 3308, gid 10.
- iMac running Tiger. primary account is rod, uid 3308, gid 10.
- Macbook running Leopard. primary user is rod, uid & gid not 3308 and 10.
After some study of dscl I thought I changed the uid for user rod in the Macbook to 3308. Apparently not.
In the Macbook /Users/rod there is a subdirectory rod (/Users/rod/rod). That subdirectory is the mount point for rod's directory
hierarchy on the sun. Works fine on the iMac where I was able to use
netinfo to change rod's uid and gid to match his originals on the sun.
On the macbook, when I mount the sun's directory hierarchy at /Users/rod/rod, I cannot cd into subdir rod nor can I view the contents of subdir rod. I notice that the owner of rod before the mount is daemon, and the owner after the mount is 3308. So it looks like I changed the UID of the subdir rod rather than of the user rod.
The goal is that on the macbook/leopard, user rod's gid and uid are 3308 and 10, and that I can mount and read/write in the sun directory hierarchy that is mounted at /Users/rod.
Help, please.
Rod
macbri - Feb 27, 2008 - 6:22 pm
Hi Rod -
Based on the docs for Leopard to change a userID with dscl (and I assume your UID:GID is now 501:501) you would do:
Is this what you did? Also it appears as though you might have to reboot once this is done...
Based on the docs for Leopard to change a userID with dscl (and I assume your UID:GID is now 501:501) you would do:
Code:
dscl . -change /Users/rod UniqueID 501 3308 dscl . -change /Users/rod PrimaryGroupID 501 10 chown -R 3308:10 /Users/rod
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