Changing userid

[eks]

Hello,

I just did a clean install of 11.10, but preserving /home on another partition (and deleting all the .config directories). But my user had a 1001 ID, whereas the new user is 1000. How do I change my user ID?

The new User Account Settings is HORRENDOUS. There's NOTHING there, how can I configure something? I remember it was quite easy before.

Why hide out these stuff? Why not leave that under an advanced settings somewhere?? I can't even configure what a "standard" or "administrator" account is!

[Lars Noodén]

One way is with the GUI:

Dash->Users and Groups->Advanced Settings->Advanced->User ID

Another is with usermod.

sudo usermod --uid 1001 eks

Either way it's probably best if you are not logged in to the account to be changed at the time you make the change.

Edit: You'll probably also want to change the group, too. Assuming that it is also 1001:

sudo usermod --uid 1001 --gid 1001 eks

[eks]

Thanks for the answer Lars!

I'll read usermod man's page and try it out.

Because I don't have a "Users and Groups", just a "User Accounts" that basically just lists users on the system with a couple of options. And no "Advanced Settings" in sight...

Is there any other gui program with that? That Users and Groups you mentioned is anywhere in any repository?

[Lars Noodén]

The 'Users and Groups' should have an equivalent on your system, somewhere. I got the instructions from looking at Precise, so it looks like it might have changed since Oneiric.