[OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 User/group gui frontend not usable

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:35:10AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 
> Barring that, what is the best way to change the number assigned to a
> users 'owner' bits so that user X has a specific number?
> 
> Is it simply to make the change in /etc/passwd?
> 
> Then chown all that users files to match?

That's what I do.

> And even when creating users from the command line, I don't see a way
> in `man useradd' to set a numeric owner bit.

`useradd -u NNN' should be the way.

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