Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 12:25:13 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Directory Ownership Trashed Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020506122513.0181b040@mail.sage-one.net> 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>
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At 10:14 AM 5.6.2002 -0700, Nathan Kinkade wrote: >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 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > OUCH! Spoke too soon! It changed ALL of the other users to the same corrected user instead on the one it should be.... seem to all be linked! Now what...??? This is maddening! .... 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
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