simple ownership script

[neurostu]

I'm planning on changing the UID of my username for a variety of reasons. When I chance the UID of my username in the /etc/passwd file I also have to update all my files to reflect the proper ownership.

I'm guessing that the easiest thing will be to write a script that will scan an entire file system and change the owndership ID from one UID to another that I can specify.

Does anybody know how to write a script like this?

[undecim]

sudo chown -R username /home/username

That will change all files in your home directory to your ownership.

[neurostu]

thanks...

What I was looking for was this:

sudo chown 1050.1050 `find -uid 1000`

[DaithiF]

sudo chown 1050.1050 `find -uid 1000`

thats probably not going to work so well for files with spaces. and you may run into issues with the length of the command itself exceeding the max # of characters (depending on how many files the find command expands to)

so maybe something like this instead:

 
sudo find somedir -uid 1000 -exec chown 1050.1050 {} \;

though personally I would agree with undecim's approach of chown'ing your home directory ... since all files there should be owned by you and there shouldn't be too many other places in a typical linux filesystem that have files owned by the user (shared data folders aside perhaps)

[ayenack]

sudo chown -R username /home/username

That will change all files in your home directory to your ownership.

I'd add the group to that as well.

sudo chown -R username:username /home/username

[neurostu]

it seems as though the usermod command is what I want:

sudo usermod -u <new uid>