Re: guid and uid of users..

["A. M. Varon" <andre@lasaltech.lasaltech.com>]

On 22 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote:

> > i'm planning to convert a couple of users to a specific uid and guid. I
> > have specified it in my passwd file. Since i have to chown the the users
> > subdirectory by hand... could anybody suggest an awk or perl script(have
> > yet to learn it...) to do it en masse?
> 
> If you're just going to chown their subdirectory (home directory), all
> you may need is "chown -R user.group /home/user", but it depends on
> your situation.

it's fairly easy to find the subdirectory of the users because it's
specified in the /etc/passwd file. I have a bash script to chown the
subdirectory, but it's so tedius to type hundred of users.

regards,

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