Assuming the USERNAME in /home/USERNAME is the same as the username in the
password file, something like:
cd to /home
then:
for i in `ls` ;do chown -R $i.$i $i; done
I think that would work. It *should* take every directory entry, and make
it owned by the user.
The chown command can take: user.group to reset the owner & group of
the directory. Some version of redhat use username for the group. If
everyone is the member of 'staf' group for example, you could this
instead:
for i in `ls` ;do chown -R $i.staff $i; done
Warning. This *will* go horribly wrong if in any other directory other
than /home
On second thought, don't do this. Someone probably has a better way of
doing it. (disclaimer)
Around Thu,Oct 16 2003, at 07:33, Bob Crandell, wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to rescue a guy's server. It has a couple of hundred accounts on it. I
>ran this script from kbob:
>(cd ${SOURCE}; /bin/tar cvf - .) | (cd ${DESTIN}; /bin/tar xvfp -)
>
>It isn't keeping the ownership of the source. Can someone come up with a quick and
>dirty way of reading /etc/passwd and assiging the original permissions to
>/home/$USER ? Please? There are a hand full of groups but I can reset that as it
>becomes an issue. That is unless setting the group permission is easy too.
>
>Oh yes, this is Redhat 6.1
>Thanks
>
>The other Bob
>
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