In article <19980101203159.31278@Elf.mj.gts.cz> you write:
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>No. You just need other tool than chown, you need tool that changes
>uid->uid. And you run it as chown -from olduser -to newuser -R /,
>which looks for all files owned by olduser and makes newuser own
>them. Just go ahead and write this tool. (And mail me a copy ;-). (I
>would also appredicate option to delete such files).
The tool is called find and can be found on virtually every Linux
installation.
Regards, Felix.