consequences of changing uid/gid on snow leopard
- by Peter Carrero
ok, so I introduced a Mac laptop to my home network of Kubuntu hosts and Fedora servers. Currently I don't have NIS or LDAP setup (I got only 2 users) and I just manually setup the UID/GID on the hosts. I would like to run the following command on my Macbook:
dscl . -change /Users/me UniqueID 501 1000
dscl . -change /Users/me PrimaryGroupID 20 503
chown -R 1000:503 /Users/me
dscl . append /Groups/staff GroupMembership me
Before I go on to hose my new Mac, I would like to know if this is the right thing to do and, if so, what are the adverse consequences I may have.
Thanks.