[3427] in RedHat Linux List
re: chown as root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (anthony)
Fri Nov 8 14:55:44 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 19:07:40 +0000 (GMT)
From: anthony <ac@achc.demon.co.uk>
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Jason Benderly wrote:
> 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
I'd say, don't do it. I did it more or less by accident a week or so ago
and subsequently various things didn't work. I couldn't work out exactly
what had gone wrong and ended by reinstalling everything on that /dev/.
Anthony
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