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To: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke>
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Subject: Re: RECOVERY
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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



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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
> 
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