Re: Misskey resulted in chown entire directory tree

[George Swan <gswan@globalserve.net>]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Pavel Epifanov wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, John Foster wrote:
> 
> >=that the result is the changing of the owner/group of every file on my
> >=complete directory tree to a single username.groupname. Any Suggestions

> Please correct me if I missed one way.

I sent a suggestion privately to John.  I probably should have sent it
publicly.  So I am going to post it publicly now.  

Note:  This only works for user's home directories, and it will be
confused by original hard links.

For those who don't read awk, the password file is separated into
7 fields by colons.  This program separates those fields, checks to
see if the field that contains the user's home directory contains
/home, then it recursively chowns all the files in that home
directory back to the proper user and group.

> >         awk -F: '
> >                 {
> >                 user  = $1
> >                 group = $4
> >                 home  = $6
> >         }
> >         home ~ /^\/home\// {
> >                 cmd = sprintf( "chown -R %s:%s %s", user, group, home )
> >                 system( cmd )
> >         }
> >         ' /etc/passwd

> > Of course you would have to be root first.