[K12OSN] chown syntax for AD authentication

Dan Young dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us
Thu Jan 11 19:26:58 UTC 2007


Ryan Hackl wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
>  
> My /home folders on k12ltsp authenticate back to a W2K3 AD.  Therefore,
> for all my users that were set up, the ownerships of the folders (when I
> do a "ls -l userid") say  something like the following
>  
> DOMAIN\userid      DOMAIN\Domain Users      10     Jan 11 2007     
> <folder name>
>  
> I'd like to chown the folder for a different userid, such as by using
>  
> # chown DOMAIN\userid2:DOMAIN\Domain Users <folder name>

Either escape the backslashes with backslashes or quote it:

chown DOMAIN\\userid2:DOMAIN\\Domain Users <folder name>

or

chown 'DOMAIN\userid2:DOMAIN\Domain Users' <folder name>

-- 
Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
503-257-1562




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