> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David A. Woyciesjes
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 3:35 PM
> To: CentOS
> Subject: 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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