bonnetf@bart.esiee.fr (Frank Bonnet) writes:
I'm facing a boring problem
I've changed the UID of a UNIX user
I hope you had a good reason - such things cause a great deal of prolonged pain in my experience...
and now he is unableto read in old .snapshot because he is not the owner of old files .
is there a way to perform a chown in .snapshot directories when I try the filer answers the filesystem is readonly ...
That's because snapshots *are* read-only. Really, really read-only!
If this isn't a one-off requirement to be dealt with by use of root privilege (it can't persist longer than your maximum snapshot lifetime after all), then you might consider:
1. Giving him a second account under the old uid for the duration.
2. If the files and directories in the snapshot are group-readable, add the new uid to the old group (this rather assumes you use personal groups).
Chris Thompson Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk