[K12OSN] Linux Directory Permissions -- Help me clean up my mess
wescott at sc.rr.com
wescott at sc.rr.com
Thu Jul 21 20:15:28 UTC 2005
> I accidentally changed the permissions of all the directories in
> /home to be owned by "root." can someone tell me how to change the
> "owner" back to the individual user. Perhaps a bash script (which I
> know nothing about) that will scan /home and change the the owner to the
> name of the directory? Example: directory aabrown should be owned by
> aabrown. Any help would be appreciated.
Just the directories? Try this (as root)
cd /home
for i in *
do
chown $i $i
done
--
Mike Wescott
wescott at sc.rr.com
More information about the K12OSN
mailing list