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Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 10:14:41 -0700
From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.com>
To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
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Subject: Re: Directory Ownership Trashed
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On Mon, 06 May 2002 11:02:39 -0500
"Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> wrote:

> Am running 4.5-RELEASE
> 
> Last night, I noticed a strange & unwanted change to the directory
> ownership that has permeated ALL of the user's home directories. For
> example, the home for "sageame" below has "subs2" as the owner of the
> "../" directory and the same "trash" appears in every user's home.
> "subs2" is another user but appears this way in every home directory.
> I removed a user at about the time this happened... did I somehow
> trash the ownership structure?
> 
> I may have messed up when I used "pw deluser <user>" for the first
> time instead of just "remuser". I put the user back, but the one
> deleted wasn't the user "subs2"
> 
> Does anyone know how this could happen and how do I fix it back...????
> HELP!
> 
> =====================================================================
> ==================
> drwxr-xr-x  21 sageame  wheel  -  1536 May  5 18:22 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  28 subs2    wheel  -   512 May  5 22:06 ../   <====
> "subs2" should be "sageame"
> -rw-r--r--   1 sageame  wheel  -     0 Jan 11 10:11 .addressbook
> -rw-------   1 sageame  wheel  -  2285 Feb 17 10:13 .addressbook.lu
> etc., etc.,.....
> =====================================================================

I'm not sure how it happened, but assuming the above view is only one
level into the users home dir it should be a quick fix.  If so then you
could just:$ chown root:wheel /usr/home 	# or other apropriate owners

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