Mac OS X: Change your User ID

Comment from http://bactroban-cream.com
Time: May 5, 2009, 7:50 am

I use NFS to access files from two other Linux boxes and on each server my UID (unique id) is set to 1000. In order for me to easily have full access to my NFS shares from OS X I changed my UID to match

Comment from kumar
Time: May 13, 2009, 8:44 am

Remember to run the chown command afterwards, or you will not be able to access your home directory. Finally, log out and log in.

Comment from cj_
Time: December 5, 2009, 11:21 am

chown -R /Users/username is not sufficient: 1. It misses symlinks, and 2. If your main account is admin, your filesystem will be full of stuff owned by you. This should cover everything:

find / \! \( -fstype hfs -or -fstype ufs \) -prune -or -user 501 -exec chown -h 1000 {} \; -print

(replace 501 and 1000 with appropriate ID’s, and don’t forget the backslashes, they are important)

Comment from Dirk Beckers
Time: March 8, 2010, 1:05 am

Thank you for this informations! Many of my NFS-problems are solved now. But I still miss the “Linux/Ubuntu-way-of-configuring” if I’m using snowleopard…