remap software for changing file ownership

[Ted Persky]

remap -an -i ignfile -u userdflt -g grpdflt startdir newpasswd newgrp
	[oldpasswd oldgrp]

Remap is a utility to traverse a given file subtree starting at "startdir",
mapping uid's in "oldpasswd" to those in "newpasswd" and gid's in
"oldgrp" to those in "newgrp".  Because remap issues chown calls to do
its work, the program must have an effective user id of "root" to
succeed.  It comes complete with man pages and makefiles.  We have
found it a convenient tool to synchronize accounts on all of our
workstations so that each user name has the same uid and gid on
all systems.  A compressed tar-image format may be obtained by "ftp"ing
to alw.nih.gov.  From there, change directory to "pub/remap" and get the file
"remap.tar.Z".  The first page of either "remap.c" or "regroup.c" gives
further information on printing out the man pages and on building the
programs.  This utility has been tested on the following architectures:

      AOS     -- IBM RT's
      SILICON -- Silicon Graphics Workstations running Irix
      AIX     -- IBM 3090
      CONVEX  -- Convex BSD 4.2
      SUNOS   -- Sun 3/50, 3/60, Sun 4, 386i, Sparc Workstations
      ULTRIX  -- MicroVax, DECStations

Another site has completed ports to the Cray YMP, Amdahl UTS,
and Concentrix Alliant.

Any questions may be directed to the author at "tpersky at alw.nih.gov".

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