From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 23:46: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from n35.groups.yahoo.com (n35.groups.yahoo.com [216.115.96.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A2F837B405 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:46:00 -0800 (PST) X-eGroups-Return: jessie@power-jessie.net Received: from [10.1.2.133] by n35.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Nov 2001 07:45:59 -0000 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 07:45:58 -0000 From: jessie@power-jessie.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: help on system accounts Message-ID: <9t2g7m+mj09@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 203.167.26.138 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello everyone! i need some help on the following: 1. is there a limit to the number of system accounts the master.passwd/passwd can hold? i currently have about more than 13,000 accounts and is still increasing. is it advisable to have such number of accounts? any suggestions? 2. i've accidentally chowned some user files to root and i want to put them back to their respective user's ownership. how can i easily change the ownership/group of files/dirs? i.e drwx--x--- 2 root wheel 512 Oct 10 23:16 gates drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 1536 Nov 13 11:36 jessie . . drwx--x--- 2 root wheel 512 Oct 10 23:16 zeus i want it to be like this: drwx--x--- 2 gates gates 512 Oct 10 23:16 gates drwxr-xr-x 7 jessie jessie 1536 Nov 13 11:36 jessie . . drwx--x--- 2 zeus zeus 512 Oct 10 23:16 zeus thanks in advance! mabuhay! jessie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message