Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:46:36 -0700 (PDT) From: <keith@mail.telestream.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RECOVERY Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009210843260.18141-100000@mail.telestream.com> In-Reply-To: <20000921183848.G12637@siafu.iconnect.co.ke>
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Something like this would work. #!/bin/sh LS="/home" #or what ever the path is. for name in $LS do chown -R $name.$name /home/$name done ================================= Keith W. At the helm <for better or worse> My non work related site www.cydonia.net ================================= On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > I was working with a trainee under me (he's learning abit of UNIX from a > novice who is me ;-)). This is on a TESTING BOX so this guy logs in as > root, cd /usr/home where we have about 80 directories with various > owners!! > Then what does he do? he did chwon -R * some_user > Now I need to rename the folders to the rightful owners. > I sound quite comfortable about this but I DO NOT know how I can do it. > Someone MUST be knowing how some script can help me do that, especially > because the users have uniq uids in the /etc/passwd..somehow?????? > > Thanks in advance. > > Wash > > -- > Odhiambo Washington > Systems Administrator > Inter-Connect Ltd. > 3rd Flr The Chancery > Valley Rd > PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA > Tel: 254 2 711140 > Fax: 254 2 718418 > > If little else, the brain is an educational toy. -Tom Robbins > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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