From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 10:16:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9343137B404 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 10:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SAGEONE (sageone [192.168.0.5]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g46HGab34005; Mon, 6 May 2002 12:16:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020506121635.0181b040@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 12:16:35 -0500 To: Nathan Kinkade From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: Directory Ownership Trashed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020506101441.229177ca.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20020506110239.0181b040@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20020506110239.0181b040@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 10:14 AM 5.6.2002 -0700, Nathan Kinkade wrote: >On Mon, 06 May 2002 11:02:39 -0500 >"Jack L. Stone" 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 " 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 > Nathan: I did that but the problem stubbornly remains.... any other ideas to force this??? I've tried chown -R (recursively) too.... .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ Best regards, Jack L. Stone Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message