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Re: chown as root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Thu Nov 7 17:51:27 1996
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 11:06:40 -0800
From: Borg <"vladimip "@iceonline.com>
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Jason Benderly wrote:
.....
> 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!!
I don't see any other way but to change in each
directory and issue:
chown root *
chgrp root *
for hidden files:
chgrp root .*
chown root .*
A bash script can speed up the process but I am not
sure how I'd handle that.
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