-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of David A. Woyciesjes Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 3:35 PM To: CentOS Subject: [CentOS] chown command goof up
Basically, what I typed was: chown -R user2:user2 * chown -R user2:user2 .* chown -R user2:user2 *.* ...all in /home. Duh. I forgot which way recursive went. So, I then did: chown -R root:root * chown -R root:root .* chown -R root:root *.* ...this time in / to try and f things. Duh again. Other items need to have other owners & groups.
So, how can I fix this? In MacOSX, there is a utility to fix all permissions on the system. Is there a similar item in CentOS?
Here's what I originally wanted to do: Started with user1. Got everything setup just right. Then created user2. I wanted to use all the settings, mail, etc. from user1 for user2. My thought was to just copy everything in /home/user1 to /home/user2, then use chown on all of the files. This is where I got myself into this pickle...
Any ideas?
In case nobody just comes out and says it.
# rpm --setperms `rpm -qa` # rpm --setugids `rpm -qa`
Should fix it.
-Ross
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