Fresh install Fedora 10 X86_64 problems
Jeff Voskamp
javoskam at uwaterloo.ca
Wed Apr 1 11:47:54 UTC 2009
Jim wrote:
> Jeff Voskamp wrote:
>> Jim wrote:
>>> Jeff Voskamp wrote:
>>>> cd /home
>>>> for x in *; do
>>>> chown -R $x:$x $x
>>>> done
>>>>
>>> That doesn't seem to work for what I'm doing.
>>>
>>> What I'm trying to do is change all directories/files in a
>>> /home/user, from one owner/group to another owner/group.
>>>
>>> When I installed FC10, fresh install and format the / partition and
>>> left the /home partition from the old fedora 8 install
>>> in place.
>>> FC10 for some reason change all the directories/files to another
>>> user on box into a /home/user.
>>> I know this sounds confusing but the point, /home/molly has the
>>> wrong owner/group on her files. I have got to get them back to
>>> molly:molly in /home/molly.
>>>
>>> Thanks again
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help
>>>
>> You saved /home on the re-install and re-created all the accounts and
>> now they don't line up?
>> The above script will change /home/joe (and subdirectories) to be
>> user joe and group joe, /home/fred to user fred and group fred, etc.
>> If you haven't re-created the accounts yet then that's a different
>> problem.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
> Are you saying ?
>
> chown -R molly:molly $x , what is the $x suppose to represent ?
The x comes from the second line - the * matches all folders and files.
It's a four line script. Cut and paste to a shell.
Or in two lines:
cd /home
for x in *; do chown -R $x:$x $x ;done
Jeff
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