Re: [Evolution] moving old mail; accounts; and filters to a new user

[Thinker <thinker thoughtprogress com>]

I Just looked back and saw this post about a similar situation.
What if I do the following.

cp -rf /home/oldusername/evolution/ /home/newusername/
chown -R newusername /home/newusername/evolution
chgrp -R newusername /home/newusername/evolution

If this will work... how does it work. I mean.. I get the concept but
what are all the switches.. 
"-R" and "-rf". 

I got this from a post by ewtrowbr yahoo com   

Will this work?


On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 22:58, Not Zed wrote:
> > Thinker, as you changed the user name (and distro!) you likely will have
> > other UID/GID. You will have to adjust them for *any* copied file for
> > security and probably accessibility reasons.
>
> But if you run tar as the user in question, this will not be an issue.
>
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