Thanks for the quick response. 1 Quick question: 1. Any way to tie the search into a locate so I can take advantage of the db that updatedb made? ---------------- Thanks Jefferson Cowart Jeff@cowart.net Support Open Instant Messaging Protocols http://www.petitiononline.com/openIM/petition.html -----Original Message----- From: pam-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:pam-list-admin@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 13:09 To: pam-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Groupmod On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Jefferson Cowart wrote: > I have realized that my /etc/passwd and /etc/group files are a little > bit of a mess in terms of uids and gids. As a result I'm trying to > change uids and gids for many of the accounts. I am being careful to > check config files and such to make sure that I don't break something as > I do this. My major problem that I have run into is that groupmod > doesn't change group ownership privileges on files/folders when I change > the GID of a group. Usermod does change the ownership so I am able to > adjust them without much worry. Is there any way to make it so group mod > will change the ownership when I change a group gid? Failing that is > there a way I can search for all files on my system owned by a certain > group. If I can get that I can just pipe that back into something to > chmod them all. TIA use the find command, which has a -gid search criteria, as in # find / -gid 42 -exec chgrp new-group-name {} \; or the -group criteria can be used if you want to search by group name. but you're already noticed what's going to take some work -- the fact that groupmod does not affect existing files. it's *your* job to clean all those up. rday _______________________________________________ Pam-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
