[K12OSN] chown script help needed (word of caution)

[John Baillie]

Peter Hartmann wrote:

>Hey List,
>I'm in sort of a bind and I need someone to help me with a chown
>script.  Because of some craziness with webmin and some idiocy in need
>a script that will do this:  for UID including and over 531 I'd like
>to chown -R users home folders to their own UID:GID.   It looked as if
>webmin would do this for me but unfortunately not.
>
>Thanks so much in advance!
>
>Peter
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Here's a little script that will do the magic.

#!/bin/bash

for i in `ls /home/`;
do
 chown -R $i:$i /home/$i
echo chowning $i to $i

done

Word of caution:

Using the webmin add user bulk script it is possible to name home dirs 
with a space and a slash at the tail

for instance /home/jsmith /

this can distroy your machine by running the reset-all-desktops script

you end up chowning everything under / to jsmith:jsmith