[K12OSN] Linux Directory Permissions -- Help me clean up my mess
John Baillie
jbaillie at stmarys-school.org
Thu Jul 21 20:17:44 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 15:39, Mark Cockrell wrote:
> Hello all,
> I accidentally changed the permissions of all the directories in
> /home to be owned by "root." can someone tell me how to change the
> "owner" back to the individual user. Perhaps a bash script (which I
> know nothing about) that will scan /home and change the the owner to the
> name of the directory? Example: directory aabrown should be owned by
> aabrown. Any help would be appreciated.
Mark,
This is not fancy but it should work. Test it in a test directory first
:-)
#!/bin/bash
for I in `ls /path/to/directory/`
do chown $I.<group_name> $I
done
--
John
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