Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 10:14:41 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.com> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Directory Ownership Trashed Message-ID: <20020506101441.229177ca.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020506110239.0181b040@mail.sage-one.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20020506110239.0181b040@mail.sage-one.net>
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On Mon, 06 May 2002 11:02:39 -0500 "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> wrote: > Am running 4.5-RELEASE > > Last night, I noticed a strange & unwanted change to the directory > ownership that has permeated ALL of the user's home directories. For > example, the home for "sageame" below has "subs2" as the owner of the > "../" directory and the same "trash" appears in every user's home. > "subs2" is another user but appears this way in every home directory. > I removed a user at about the time this happened... did I somehow > trash the ownership structure? > > I may have messed up when I used "pw deluser <user>" for the first > time instead of just "remuser". I put the user back, but the one > deleted wasn't the user "subs2" > > Does anyone know how this could happen and how do I fix it back...???? > HELP! > > ===================================================================== > ================== > drwxr-xr-x 21 sageame wheel - 1536 May 5 18:22 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 28 subs2 wheel - 512 May 5 22:06 ../ <==== > "subs2" should be "sageame" > -rw-r--r-- 1 sageame wheel - 0 Jan 11 10:11 .addressbook > -rw------- 1 sageame wheel - 2285 Feb 17 10:13 .addressbook.lu > etc., etc.,..... > ===================================================================== I'm not sure how it happened, but assuming the above view is only one level into the users home dir it should be a quick fix. If so then you could just:$ chown root:wheel /usr/home # or other apropriate owners To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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