Couldn't you use *groupmod *to change your *gid*? On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > I had somehow accidentally created two copies of the group "staff", one > with gid 50 and another with gid 1000. So I wanted to get rid of the one > with gid 1000 and change everyone over to the group with gid 50. > > When I edited /etc/passwd, I changed every :1000: to :50: because when I > looked at the file I thought they were all groups, but it turns out that > exactly one was not -- it was my uid. So I changed my record in the passwd > file such that my uid is now 50 instead of 1000, but I am logged in as > 1000, which no longer exists. So when I try to sudo, it won't let me, > always saying: > > sudo: unknown uid: 1000 > > I suppose I can boot to Live CD and change the /etc/passwd file > appropriately. Is there any easier way to do it? > > > If the LiveCD is the only way to go ... I'm using a RAID1 on this system. > Is it possible to properly edit files on the RAID from the LiveCD? Is the > best way to mount both devices and make identical changes to both? > > Mike > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120613/10d7559a/attachment.html>