[Samba] Change winbindd UID mapping

Chris Nighswonger cnighswonger at foundations.edu
Mon Jul 30 09:04:35 MDT 2012


Sorry, I forgot to cc the list....

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Jonathan Buzzard
<jonathan at buzzard.me.uk> wrote:
>
> Not read it in detail but the file system stores UID's and GID's. So if you
> change the mapping then you have to change the UID of *EVERY* file and
> folder on the file system to the new UID.
>
> Look and the man page for find. It sucks so don't change mappings unless
> absolutely necessary.

Indeed, find is my friend in this case! Thanks a million for the pointer.

Unfortunately I am forced to change the UID's on this directory
structure, but find is working very nicely.

Kind Regards,
Chris


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