[CentOS] Finding user's files

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, mark wrote:

> This is among the things we need to do when a user leaves, and it's 
> a larger question than it sounds. Our Office has many servers, with 
> a good number of fileservers for projects, with large filesystems 
> (i.e. 10's of TB). Can anyone think of a way *other* than running 
> what's probably a many-hour long find / -user on all our systems, 
> which is really intensive, to find all the files own by a given 
> user?
>
> Locate would be great, but from the man pages and what I can find 
> online, it only stores filenames and paths.

The only way I know is to keep an updated database of metadata, which 
may be a security vulnerability depending on its accessibility and the 
nature of your work. The Robinhood engine was written for this sort of 
purpose:

https://github.com/cea-hpc/robinhood/wiki

That said, we use Robinhood on a single lustre filesystem. I don't 
know how if you can set up a central instance across several file 
servers or if each filesystem would need its own engine.

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