I moved user directories from one server to another

/home/username

after moving them the owner is root
group is root

I have over 200+ user directories

How do I change all the directories to their owners and groups without doing
it one by one

chown -R username.username userhomedir


Thanks

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In news:r-adnQzjTLROqQKiRVn-gw@comcast.com,
Tony <tony.wong@comcast.net> typed:
quote:

> I moved user directories from one server to another
>
> /home/username
>
> after moving them the owner is root
> group is root
>
> I have over 200+ user directories
>
> How do I change all the directories to their owners and groups
> without doing it one by one
>
> chown -R username.username userhomedir
>
>
> Thanks


untested...

awk -F: 'BEGIN{print "#!/bin/sh"} {print "chown -R $1.$1 $6"}' /etc/passwd >
 fix.sh

Should generate a script to fix the permissions.
Check that fix.sh does what you want and then run it.
Adam

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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:32:41 -0800, Tony
<tony.wong@comcast.net> wrote:
quote:

> I moved user directories from one server to another
>
> /home/username
>
> after moving them the owner is root
> group is root
>

How did you move the files?
quote:

> I have over 200+ user directories
>
> How do I change all the directories to their owners and groups without doi
ng
> it one by one
>

Copy them the right way using, for example, (s)cp -a or rsync -a or tar.


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Tony <tony.wong@comcast.net> wrote:
quote:

> I moved user directories from one server to another

quote:

> /home/username

quote:

> after moving them the owner is root
> group is root

quote:

> I have over 200+ user directories

quote:

> How do I change all the directories to their owners and groups without doi
ng
> it one by one

quote:

> chown -R username.username userhomedir


Using proper tools ( pax, cpio or simular) will preserve
ownership and rights.

Applying repeated commands cn be done with scripts. Do yourself
a favor and start learning scripting, i'd recommend the "bash"-book
from o'reilly.

quote:

> Thanks





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scp -a -a is not an option?
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quote:

> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:32:41 -0800, Tony
>   <tony.wong@comcast.net> wrote: 
> How did you move the files?
> 
doing[QUOTE] 
> Copy them the right way using, for example, (s)cp -a or rsync -a or tar.
>
>
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my fix.sh script look like this:

#!/bin/sh
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I ran fix.sh but nothing happens

"Adam Price" <adam+usenet@pappnase.co.uk> wrote in message
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quote:

> In news:r-adnQzjTLROqQKiRVn-gw@comcast.com,
> Tony <tony.wong@comcast.net> typed: 
>
> untested...
>
> awk -F: 'BEGIN{print "#!/bin/sh"} {print "chown -R $1.$1 $6"}' /etc/passwd
> fix.sh
>
> Should generate a script to fix the permissions.
> Check that fix.sh does what you want and then run it.
> Adam
>
>

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:18:03 -0800,
Tony <tony.wong@comcast.net> wrote:

[QUOTE] 

Awk does not interpolate variable in strings unlike perl.

Do this
awk -F: 'BEGIN{print "#!/bin/sh"} {print "chown -R " $1 "." $1, $6}' /etc/pa
sswd

I prefer this to get the right group from the password file.

awk -F: 'BEGIN{print "#!/bin/sh"} {print "chown -R " $3 "." $4, $6}' /etc/pa
sswd


Also do remove the entries for system user names such root, bin, daemon,
or adm from the generated shell script.  Mofifying the owner for any
files in the home directories of those users may have a devastating
result on your unix system.


Villy

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:04:14 -0800, Tony
<tony.wong@comcast.net> wrote:
quote:

> scp -a -a is not an option?

Oops, that should be scp -p.  Silly of me to expect these things to make
sense, but you could have read the man page.



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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:18:03 -0800, Tony
<tony.wong@comcast.net> wrote:
quote:

> my fix.sh script look like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> chown -R $1.$1 $6
> chown -R $1.$1 $6
>
> I ran fix.sh but nothing happens
>

You can't chown files on a FAT filesystem.


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Trent Curry wrote:
quote:

> Bill Marcum wrote: 
>
> Who said anything about using a FAT fs? This is a linux ng after all.

^^^^^
Ahem, unix-based os admin ng ;p

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