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consequences of changing uid/gid on snow leopard

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Mar 15, 20265835 views
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ok, so I introduced a Mac laptop to my home network of Kubuntu hosts and Fedora servers. Currently I don't have NIS or LDAP setup (I got only 2 users) and I just manually setup the UID/GID on the hosts. I would like to run the following command on my Macbook: Before I go on to hose my new Mac, I wo…

Error Output

dscl . -change /Users/me UniqueID 501 1000
dscl . -change /Users/me PrimaryGroupID 20 503
chown -R 1000:503 /Users/me
dscl . append /Groups/staff Gro…

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Fix for: consequences of changing uid/gid on snow leopard

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well, throughout today I ended up doing exactly what I had outlined on the question. I've been using the mac the whole day today and so far, I've seen no adverse effect and I can finally access my NFS shares without problems. I guess continuous use …

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