changing UID of user sshd tftp and hpsmh

[Dennis Handly]

>Kapil: plus you do not need to do any chown

It isn't documented that usermod(1m) performs the chown(1) operation, so I would assume it doesn't.

[Kapil Jha]

it does not change files outside user's home directory, but it does whatever inside home directory.

BR,
Kapil+

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

> Dennis: If you want performance, you should use xargs

Yes, of course. In fact, we can eliminate the intermediate file and its attendant I/O and do:

# find / -user 100 -print|while read NAME;do echo ${NAME};done|xargs -t chown 200

As Dennis inferred, using the '-t' option with 'xargs' gives you a trace of the command and its arguments that are being executed.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dennis Handly]

>JRF: we can eliminate the intermediate file and its attendant I/O and do:

You may want that file for your records, or to do the chmod in chunks.

>using the '-t' option with 'xargs' gives you a trace of the command

Oops, that should have been -tn80 (or an even larger number).

[Dennis Handly]

># find / -user 100 -print | while read NAME; do echo ${NAME}; done | xargs -t chown 200

Hmm.  If you eliminate the file, there is no need for that while and xargs:

fine / -user 100 -exec chown 200 {} +