[CentOS] chown command goof up

Mon Feb 12 21:58:16 UTC 2007
Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at 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?

To fix the home dirs:

# getent passwd | awk -F: '{system("if [ -d "$6" ]; then chown -R
"$3":"$4" "$6"; chmod -R 700 "$6";fi")}}'

This should set perms for all users (and services!) home directories,
make sure the 700 is adequate for service accounts, which is probably is
not.


-Ross

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