Actually this turned out for the best. I was watching the progress and all the directories were root:root. My life was flashing before my eyes.
Now the script just finished and all the ownerships were correct. I'm enjoying the ability to breathe again. Thanks Roger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >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 $; /bin/tar cvf - .) | (cd $; /bin/tar xvfp -) >> >>It isn't keeping the ownership of the source. Can someone come up with a quick and >>dirty way of reading /etc/passwd and assiging the original permissions to >>/home/$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 >> >>-- >>Assured Computing >>When you need to be sure. >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>www.assuredcomp.com >>Voice - 541-868-0331 >>FAX - 541-463-1627 >>Eugene, Oregon >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>EuG-LUG mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug >> > >EuG-LUG mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > -- Assured Computing When you need to be sure. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.assuredcomp.com Voice - 541-868-0331 FAX - 541-463-1627 Eugene, Oregon _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
