Changing the User UID of a User with No Name

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If a user has an UID but no name, ie:

$ whoami
whoami: cannot find name for user ID 1001
$ id
uid=1001 gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

is it possible to change the UID but still leave the user name undefined? ----- System info:

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.15.0-88-generic (buildd@lgw01-amd64-036) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12)) #88~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 12 04:19:15 UTC 2020

Asked by Athena Wisdom (113 rep)

May 15, 2020, 07:29 PM
Last activity: Apr 23, 2025, 02:03 AM

Changing the User UID of a User with No Name

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