[indiana-discuss] Two questions before I install OpenSolaris for "real"

[Bryan Boone]

So now I've used usermod, but I get gnome errors when I log in;)
Still tinkering....
-Bryan

John Malone wrote:
> I think the "Users and Groups" gui might let you do this.
> 
> System->Administration->Users and Groups.
> 
> Select your username and then Properties.
> 
> The advanced tab has a user id entry.
> 
> I don't know if that will modify your home directory ownership or update the
> ownership of you files so test it first.
> 
> Might be worth a look.
> 
> And a bug if it doesn't work ;)
> 
> John
> 
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Bryan Boone <Bryan.Boone at sas.com> wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>  Just got back from CommunityOne and JavaOne and I'm chomping at the bit
>>>  to install OpenSolaris for real on a desktop....
>>>
>>>  1) I installed in vmware and when I created a user, I didn't get an
>>>  opportunity to choose a uid.  I need to change this so I can hit all my
>>>  corporate nfs mounts.  I tried to su, then usermod, but I can't seem to
>>>  do that under the account since it's in use.  How can I do this?
>> Just remove the "type=role;" token from the root entry in
>> /etc/user_attr and remove any "roles=root" tokens from other users in
>> that file.
>>
>> Then you can login as root and do what you need to.
>>
>> After doing that, you can always add "type=role" back.
>>
>> There may be another way of doing this...
>>