I mean, can you get *root* on your box or log in with another user? If you can, I'd try and use *groupmod*? If you can't I bet you could mount the RAID filesystem and do this with a LiveCD -> Jake On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Jake Vath <jake.vath at gmail.com> wrote: > 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/c59e9c27/attachment.html>