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I have a problem that I simply can't see the solution to.

I have bound an incorrect user account to my UNIX ID. Two Scalix accounts cannot be linked to the same UNIX ID (understandable). I want to change the ID of the incorrect one to use the dynamic Scalix ID pool.

[ommodu -o "user" -u ] doesn't do the trick - I can't specify either a numeric ID not associated with a UNIX login, or a blank. The SAC also doesn't have an option for this.

How does one go about doing this?

That's interesting. There isn't a way to do what you want, at least not directly. I'll put an enhancement request in against ommodu so I can fix it at some stage.

There is an indirect way that I've just tried out. The trick is to use at omadmidp (admin id pool). First, run omadmidp -uxv. This will give you a detailed breakdown of what IDs are in use, eg on my system it said:Since this is one of my development installations and I do appalling things to it the error is not unexpected or surprising. Anyway, from the list I can see that UID 36008 is free. I next did what you should never do; created a unix accont with that UID and set the user (called "exp") to that UID:The -M flag to useradd makes sure I don't get a home directory I don't want.

Re-running omadmidp -uxv now shows up a different error, namely:I can just fix this with the -f flag and everything is hunky dory:

I'd recommend trying this out on a temporary installation rather than the live one to be sure that it works OK for you and that you're confident you know what you're doing. As I was playing with a development message store I really wasn't too bothered if things went pear shaped!

jch

Thanks a lot, this works perfectly. I should have thought of the solution myself ...

Glad to know it works for you. Many thanks for idea.

It's a lot easier now: for me anyway. I've just checked in a change that allows yo to sayAnd I've even updated the man page :-) All being well, you'll be able to get your hands on this particular fix in the next release.

jch