[3248] in RedHat Linux List
re: chown as root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Benderly)
Thu Nov 7 18:56:10 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 17:53:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Jason Benderly <jbenderl@painewebber.com>
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Hi All,
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!!
Vlad responded:
>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.
Vlad,
Thank you very much for replying to me. I have no problem changing all
the stuff to root. But should everything be changed to root? Shouldn't
some files belong to bin, or daemon, or ... Since I don't know the original
owners I do not know what should be what...
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Jason
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