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chown as root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Benderly)
Thu Nov 7 09:35:08 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 09:30:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Jason Benderly <jbenderl@painewebber.com>
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Hi,
Did something very stupid while I wasn't paying attention.
I moved some directories that were owned by root to a user account.
I then wanted to change the ownership of those directories to the user account.
I did not realize what directoy I was in when I issued the chown command.
Now, the user account owns everything on my system. Imagine going into
/sbin and seeing that everything is owned by user account joebloe!!
How do I get permissions back to what they were without doing a re-install.
I noticed that when I do an ls -als, there is a group ownership field. It
seems
that every user has their own group also. Could I write a script that extracts
the
group name and chowns it to the group name? Would this be reliable?
Thanks for any help!!!!
Jason :-(
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