Quoting "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker at medallion.com>: > > Yup, just popt aliases, found in /usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt-4.3.3 > > rpm alias --setperms -q --qf '[\[ -L %{FILENAMES:shescape} \] || > chmod %7.7{FILEMODES:octal} %{FILENAMES:shescape}\n]' \ > --pipe "grep -v \(none\) | sed 's/chmod .../chmod /' > | sh" \ > --POPTdesc=$"set permissions of files in a package" > > rpm alias --setugids -q --qf \ > '[ch %{FILEUSERNAME:shescape} %{FILEGROUPNAME:shescape} > %{FILENAMES:shescape}\n]' \ > --pipe "(echo 'ch() { chown -- \"$1\" \"$3\";chgrp -- \"$2\" > \"$3\"; }';grep -v \(none\))|sh" \ > --POPTdesc=$"set user/group ownership of files in a package" So if I'm following this right, then I just need to run rpm --setugids `rpm -qa` as root, from /, and this should set the owner & groups on all files, as appropriate? Except for of course the files in /home? As for my original plan, I saw krename in yum. At first glance, that looks like it should do what I wanted. Anyone have experience with it? -- --- David Woyciesjes