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marinm · #1 (**permalink**) 23-01-2007, 12:47 AM

Hello,

Recently I had to backup my data because the hard drives were failing. When I restored the accounts, all folders (users) in /home had the same owner (a3u3). Here's an example:

Quote:

root@voyager [/home]# ls -al |more
total 12845244
drwxr-xr-x 1099 root root 20480 Jan 21 16:42 ./
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jan 21 16:42 ../
drwx--x--x 7 a3u3 a3u3 4096 Jan 19 08:23 a3u3/
drwx--x--x 7 a3u3 a3u3 4096 Jan 19 08:23 a789crew/
drwx--x--x 7 a3u3 a3u3 4096 Jan 19 08:23 ace88/
drwx--x--x 7 a3u3 a3u3 4096 Jan 19 08:23 adamnic/
drwx--x--x 7 a3u3 a3u3 4096 Jan 19 08:24 adamsand/
drwx--x--x 6 a3u3 a3u3 4096 Jan 19 08:34 adi/
drwx--x--x 7 a3u3 a3u3 4096 Jan 19 08:24 adriana/
drwx--x--x 7 a3u3 a3u3 4096 Jan 19 08:34 adultph/
drwx--x--x 7 a3u3 a3u3 4096 Jan 19 08:24 aeortic/
drwx--x--x 7 a3u3 a3u3 4096 Jan 19 08:24 afclan/
drwx--x--x 9 a3u3 a3u3 4096 Jan 19 08:24 afzal/

....and so on.

Can anyone help me a script which will change the ownership of each directory? This is how it's supposed to look like:

Quote:

drwx--x--x 7 a3u3 a3u3 4096 Jan 19 08:23 a3u3/
drwx--x--x 7 a789crew a789crew 4096 Jan 19 08:23 a789crew/
drwx--x--x 7 ace88 ace88 4096 Jan 19 08:23 ace88/
drwx--x--x 7 adamnic adamnic 4096 Jan 19 08:23 adamnic/
drwx--x--x 7 adamsand adamsand 4096 Jan 19 08:24 adamsand/
drwx--x--x 6 adi adi 4096 Jan 19 08:34 adi/
drwx--x--x 7 adriana adriana 4096 Jan 19 08:24 adriana/

...and so on.

I guess this should be easy to make for someone who knows scripting....Can anyone help me please? I have over 1000 accounts and doing this manually will take ages.

The script should execute chown -R user.group directory...

Thanks,
Marin

nixcraft · #2 (**permalink**) 23-01-2007, 01:03 AM

Try

Code:

#!/bin/bash
HOMED="/home"
DIRS=$(ls -l $HOMED | grep ^d | awk '{ print $8}')
for d in $DIRS
do
  echo "chown -R $d.$d $HOMED/$d"
done

Replace when satisfied

Code:

  echo "chown -R $d.$d $HOMED/$d"

With

Code:

  chown -R $d.$d $HOMED/$d

marinm · #3 (**permalink**) 23-01-2007, 02:12 AM

Thanks for the quick reply! This is what I get:

root@voyager [~]# ./home
chown -R 08:23.08:23 /home/08:23
chown -R 08:23.08:23 /home/08:23
chown -R 08:23.08:23 /home/08:23
chown -R 08:23.08:23 /home/08:23
chown -R 08:23.08:23 /home/08:23
chown -R 08:24.08:24 /home/08:24
chown -R 08:34.08:34 /home/08:34
chown -R 08:24.08:24 /home/08:24
chown -R 08:34.08:34 /home/08:34
chown -R 08:24.08:24 /home/08:24
chown -R 08:24.08:24 /home/08:24

Is it normal?

marinm · #4 (**permalink**) 23-01-2007, 03:13 AM

I belive the script picks up the time instead of the username...help?

nixcraft · #5 (**permalink**) 23-01-2007, 06:56 AM

Is this a Linux box? Just count output using ls -l and select correct col $8 is for dir. Try $9 and run script again

marinm · #6 (**permalink**) 23-01-2007, 12:53 PM

That worked! $9 worked! Thank you so much!

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