Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 10:54:10 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.com> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Directory Ownership Trashed Message-ID: <20020506105410.650528c5.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020506122513.0181b040@mail.sage-one.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20020506110239.0181b040@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20020506110239.0181b040@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20020506122513.0181b040@mail.sage-one.net>
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On Mon, 06 May 2002 12:25:13 -0500 "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> wrote: > 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! In a manner of speaking they are all 'linked', but really it's just that from the perspective of each users home dir the '..' references the same directory....probably /usr/home....so when you attempt change the ownership for '..' in one users dir you are really changing the ownership for the directory that '..' points to, which, again, is almost certainly /usr/home - unless you've done something non-standard. So, what happens when, as root, you type:$ cd /usr $ chown root:wheel home $ ls -l # just to see what chown did To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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