I am assisting in migrating a system framework from HP-UX onto SUSE and an important part is the UUID’s and GUID’s in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files which are used within the framework for security purposes.
One of which conflicts with the GUID of the group ‘uuidd’ of SUSE.
I’d like to defer from changing the GUID the framework knows about and change the GUID of ‘uuidd’ in SUSE.
Can I safely do that? What does it do?
Do I need to go through the work of changing my framework.
Thanks for your time.
Matthew E Kaiser
IT Department
Midwestern University - Downer’s Grove Campus
It looks to me as if you are talking about “uid” and “gid” rather than “UUID”.
Changing uid and gid should be okay, as long as you change everything. If you change an existing system uid, then you also need to modify all files owned by that uid, so that the reflect the replacement uid.
While what you ask is common to Unix and Linux (and the answers are valid for them), I have the strong idea that you do not talk about openSUSE (that is the subject of these forums), but SLED/SLES.
The SLES/SLED forums is at Novell Forums (same username/password).
Your next question may touch differences between openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise and thus may become misinterpreted here.