[mdlug] a chown -R disaster recovery question

[Michael ORourke]

Try this...

ls -1 /filesystem/vol/users | xargs -i chown -R {} /filesystem/vol/users/{}

Thats a "ls dash one" not a "ls dash el"

-Mike

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mdlug at wowway.com 
  To: mdlug at mdlug.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:07 AM
  Subject: [mdlug] a chown -R disaster recovery question


  Hello, let's say I have a system where there are hundreds of users, with a
  system of NIS-mapped home dirs such as this:

  /filesystem/vol/users/user1
  /filesystem/vol/users/user2
  /filesystem/vol/users/user3 
  ...
  /filesystem1/vol1/users/userX

  and each user is owner of their own home dir.

  Accidentally, I go through at the level of /filesystem/vol and 
  I chmod -R user1 *   (I know, that was a mistake).

  Is there a way to run back through that and chown everyone back?

  Thanks, 


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