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To: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke>
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OOoopps messed that up.  should be.
LS=`ls /home`



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Keith W.
At the helm <for better or worse>

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On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 keith@mail.telestream.com wrote:

> 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
> > 
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