james pifer rluobrienpifercom tue 20080304 1206 0800 sloan wrote roger oberholtzer wrote tue 20080304 1144 0800 sloan wrote theres answer make userids thats standard procedure meaning standard linux procedure svr4 os9 solaris sure others map uidgid done making large environment nice agree solution available linux least far know oh linux ugidd awhile remember seeing slackware 1994 suppose something like could used thought sort hack prefer use standardized uids rocket science perhaps bit tedious switch uid matter editing passwordshadow files chown r users files joe thanks everyone change uid working james fri 08 aug 2008 035831 0500 opensuse rights mounted drives