Jim wrote:
Jeff Voskamp wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> Jeff Voskamp wrote:
>>> cd /home
>>> for x in *; do
>>> chown -R $x:$x $x
>>> done
>>>
>> That doesn't seem to work for what I'm doing.
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is change all directories/files in a
>> /home/user, from one owner/group to another owner/group.
>>
>> When I installed FC10, fresh install and format the / partition and
>> left the /home partition from the old fedora 8 install
>> in place.
>> FC10 for some reason change all the directories/files to another user
>> on box into a /home/user.
>> I know this sounds confusing but the point, /home/molly has the
>> wrong owner/group on her files. I have got to get them back to
>> molly:molly in /home/molly.
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
> You saved /home on the re-install and re-created all the accounts and
> now they don't line up?
> The above script will change /home/joe (and subdirectories) to be user
> joe and group joe, /home/fred to user fred and group fred, etc.
> If you haven't re-created the accounts yet then that's a different
> problem.
>
> Jeff
>
Are you saying ?
chown -R molly:molly $x , what is the $x suppose to represent ?
A variable. Yes your command above should do it. Include the path to
files though.
chown -R molly:molly /path/to/files
Probably /home/molly
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