Re: Recovering from "chown -R" disaster

[Steve Grubb <sgrubb redhat com>]

On Thursday 13 September 2007 17:34:09 Michael Weber wrote:
> Any help out there?

Seems like you could script something to use rpm's database to restore 
perms. "rpm -qa" would populate a list of all packages.

rpm -ql --verbose $package | awk '{ printf "%s,%s %s\n", $3, $4, $9 }'

would get you the owner, group and file. This would fix most files, but 
something like user's home dirs or directories with sticky bits need 
identifying and fixing.

-Steve