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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">You will need to do this with chown from the c library functions (could do this from perl or python). If you try to change this from a shell script you will hit the Linux command which will have a lot more overhead. I had a customer attempt this using the shell and it ended up taking forever due to a brain damaged NIS service :-). <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Jim <br></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, June 8, 2020, 2:01:39 PM EDT, Lohit Valleru <valleru@cbio.mskcc.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv6988452566"><style>#yiv6988452566 body{font-family:Helvetica, Arial;font-size:13px;}</style><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial;font-size:13px;">Hello Everyone,</div><div class="yiv6988452566gmail_signature"><div><br></div><div>We are planning to migrate from LDAP to AD, and one of the best solution was to change the uidNumber and gidNumber to what SSSD or Centrify would resolve.</div><div><br></div><div>May I know, if anyone has come across a tool/tools that can change the uidNumbers and gidNumbers of billions of files efficiently and in a reliable manner?</div><div>We could spend some time to write a custom script, but wanted to know if a tool already exists.</div><div><br></div><div>Please do let me know, if any one else has come across a similar situation, and the steps/tools used to resolve the same.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Lohit</div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a><br></div>
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