How to change user id (672 to 673) in NIS users (Through command)

[yogesh kumar_2]

Hi,

My problem is already a user is having user id 672.The same user id 672 is assigned to me.So i want to know how to change user id from 672 to 673 in NIS users.(How to change in commands)

regards
yogi

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

On the nis master run:
usermod -u
This will change the uid of the user.
Then propogate the change to the NIS domain:
cd /var/yp
make

[Dennis Handly]

After you change the user ID, you'll have to do a find and chown to change the ownership to the new ID.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

change /etc/passwd on the NIS master

ypmake

SEP

[Steven Schweda]

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1260786

[yogesh kumar_2]

Thank u to all. I got the solution