switching distros

[Derek Broughton]

Chris G wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 03:18:21PM -0700, Pastor JW wrote:

>>                      Mention was made that the User ID number was
>>                      different
>> (500 instead of 1000 or something like that).  Can this be done and
>> perhaps edit the User ID to fit the new system?
> 
> It's perfectly possible, all you need to do is edit the /etc/passwd
> file so that the user ID and group ID match those you see on the files
> in the users' home directories in /home.  At least that's how I'd do
> it (being a command line junkie).

You can do it in the GUI too.
> 
> Actually now I think about it you can probably do it when you add the
> users to your new installation, depending on the tool/utility you use
> to add them you may be able to set the user ID and group ID when you
> create them.

Yes.

I'm also fairly sure there's a simple parameter to change to make the base
user ID 500 instead of 1000, but for the life of me I can't recall where.

-- 
derek