Re: Can groups 100 & 200 be reassigned

From: Harvey, Bruce T. (BTHarvey_at_LMUS.LEGGMASON.COM)
Date: 10/31/03

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    I don't know for sure about 200, but when I 'find / -user 100 -print' I only
    get /home/guest ... for 200, I find all sorts of files for IMNSearch ... I
    don't know how it might be affected, but I'll wager if you changed the ids
    in the /etc files then changed all the existing 100s and 200s files and
    directories to their respective new ids, you shouldn't have any problem. Of
    course, someone may have hard-coded the user id number in a program, but
    they'd be nasty and dispicable and not using good practices and should
    therefore be loathed.

    I bet it'd work, though.

    Bruce T. Harvey
    Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc.
    Corporate Technology - UNIX Admin.
    Red Run 2nd Floor - Owings Mills, MD
    (410) 580-7383 - BTHarvey@LeggMason.com
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Randy Rodgers [mailto:randy.rodgers@CI.FT-WAYNE.IN.US]
    Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:06 AM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: Can groups 100 & 200 be reassigned

    We are migrating an application to a newly installed AIX 4.3.3
    (the vendor isn't ready for AIX 5 yet). When setting up the
    groups we found that two GIDs that we had used for the
    application were already assigned.

    GID 100 is already assigned as group "usr", which is used by
    user "guest".

    GID 200 is already assigned as group "imnadm", which is used by
    user "imnadm".

    Does anyone know if it will cause a problem if I re-assign
    these groups to different GIDs so that I can use GID 100 & 200?

    Thank you,

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