permissions- still not an answer to my question

[roland]

On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:42:45 +0200, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>  
wrote:

> roland wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:54:25 +0200, Anne Wilson  
>> <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday 07 August 2008 10:32:59 roland wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I moved the homedirectories from one server to another.
>>>> Somehow the permissons got mixed up.
>>>> Is there anyway to check permissions?

>> I can check easely owner and group but what I would like to find is a  
>> script that checks the permissions. I remember, sorry to mention it,  
>> SCO unix, they had a utility to check the entire installation.
>> Like for example .dmrc, in the home dir, need to have a 644 permission.
>> What permissions should the other .dir have, like .gnome, .evolution  
>> eso.
>
> Most directories are very happy with 744 permissions.  That would be  
> mostly what you want since 644 could present problems.  The only  
> directory that I *know requires* a different permission is .ssh, where  
> you'd need 700.
>
> I did notice that you've convinced yourself that your problems are  
> related to permissions and don't seem interested to explore other  
> possibilities. AFAIK, you also didn't mention exactly *how* you moved  
> the home directories.
>
I did not mean to give that impression, sorry.
I copied /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, /etc/gshadow
I copied /home with rsync
I hope this is an answer and I am still interested in whatever solution :-)

roland


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