permissions- still not an answer to my question

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 12:58 +0200, roland wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:42:45 +0200, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> > roland wrote:
> >> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:54:25 +0200, Anne Wilson  
> >> <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thursday 07 August 2008 10:32:59 roland wrote:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I moved the homedirectories from one server to another.
> >>>> Somehow the permissons got mixed up.
> >>>> Is there anyway to check permissions?
> 
> >> I can check easely owner and group but what I would like to find is a  
> >> script that checks the permissions. I remember, sorry to mention it,  
> >> SCO unix, they had a utility to check the entire installation.
> >> Like for example .dmrc, in the home dir, need to have a 644 permission.
> >> What permissions should the other .dir have, like .gnome, .evolution  
> >> eso.
> >
> > Most directories are very happy with 744 permissions.  That would be  
> > mostly what you want since 644 could present problems.  The only  
> > directory that I *know requires* a different permission is .ssh, where  
> > you'd need 700.
> >
> > I did notice that you've convinced yourself that your problems are  
> > related to permissions and don't seem interested to explore other  
> > possibilities. AFAIK, you also didn't mention exactly *how* you moved  
> > the home directories.
> >
> I did not mean to give that impression, sorry.
> I copied /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, /etc/gshadow
> I copied /home with rsync
> I hope this is an answer and I am still interested in whatever solution :-)
> 
> roland
That would make the uids and gids the same but would not affext the
permissiond in the home directory. Did you copy the home directories
also?
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