> No... See my message. chown must be run from root. This is "standard"
> operation (changing user uid, etc).
Well, if changing the user id is a "standard" operation (which
it should not be, if you do some planning), the correct way to
change ownership of the user's files is the following:
find / -uid 123 -exec chown user {} \; # Old user id = 123
This should be obvious if you think of the semantics of the
UNIX file system.
-- Johan Myreen jem@iki.fi