Hello there, What I ended up doing (perhaps to soon) was the following:
chgrp paul -R /home/paul
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paul@paul-Thinkcentre-M57p:/home> pwd /home -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
paul@paul-Thinkcentre-M57p:/home> ls -lah total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 14 Jan 21 18:18 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 142 Jun 3 2021 .. drwx------ 1 deb deb 318 Jan 22 00:02 deb drwx------ 1 paul paul 878 Jan 22 00:47 paul paul@paul-Thinkcentre-M57p:/home> cd paul paul@paul-Thinkcentre-M57p:~> ls -lah total 108K drwx------ 1 paul paul 878 Jan 22 00:47 . dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 14 Jan 21 18:18 .. -rw------- 1 paul paul 0 Jan 10 22:04 1-10-24-test-0.txt -rw------- 1 paul paul 0 Jan 10 22:06 1-10-24-test-1.txt -rw------- 1 paul paul 0 Jan 10 22:05 1-10-24-test-2.txt drwx------ 1 paul paul 10 Jan 6 03:41 airscan -rw------- 1 paul paul 308 Jan 20 19:36 .asoundrc -rw------- 1 paul paul 47K Jan 22 01:15 .bash_history -rw------- 1 paul paul 742 Feb 25 2021 .bashrc drwx------ 1 paul paul 0 Oct 10 2020 bin drwx------ 1 paul paul 2.6K Jan 22 01:17 .cache drwx------ 1 paul paul 22 Nov 26 14:58 .cddb drwx------ 1 paul paul 18 Jan 18 2021 .clonk drwx------ 1 paul paul 3.4K Jan 22 01:46 .config drwx------ 1 paul paul 112 Jan 20 03:25 .dbgl drwx------ 1 paul paul 22 Jan 21 21:47 .dbus drwx------ 1 paul paul 2.1K Jan 21 22:31 Desktop drwx------ 1 paul paul 916 Jan 17 16:50 Documents drwx------ 1 paul paul 14 Jan 19 23:33 .doomsday drwx------ 1 paul paul 56 Jan 20 04:19 .dosbox drwx------ 1 paul paul 34 Jan 21 14:00 Downloads drwx------ 1 paul paul 552 Apr 26 2021 .dvdcss -rw------- 1 paul paul 1.6K Oct 10 2020 .emacs -rw------- 1 paul paul 16 Oct 14 2020 .esd_auth drwx------ 1 paul paul 10 Oct 10 2020 .fonts -rw------- 1 paul paul 110 Jan 18 2021 .fonts.conf drwx------ 1 paul paul 182 Jan 20 21:04 Games drwx------ 1 paul paul 140 Jan 19 02:27 .gnupg drwx------ 1 paul paul 24 Jan 17 12:44 .godot -rw------- 1 paul 100 246 Jan 22 00:52 .gtkrc-2.0 -rw------- 1 paul paul 599 Oct 10 2020 .i18n drwx------ 1 paul paul 38 Oct 14 2020 .icons -rw------- 1 paul paul 861 Oct 10 2020 .inputrc drwx------ 1 paul paul 10 Oct 14 2020 .kde4 drwx------ 1 paul paul 20 Sep 20 2021 .local drwx------ 1 paul paul 72 Oct 14 2020 .mozilla drwx------ 1 paul paul 2.3K Jan 20 14:46 Music drwx------ 1 paul paul 8 Jan 21 02:22 .nexuiz drwx------ 1 paul paul 24 Jan 11 03:29 .nv -rw------- 1 paul paul 1.8K Jan 11 13:43 .nvidia-settings-rc drwx------ 1 paul paul 626 Jan 11 10:01 Pictures drwx------ 1 paul paul 10 Dec 20 2020 .pki -rw------- 1 paul paul 856 Oct 10 2020 .profile drwx------ 1 paul paul 0 Oct 14 2020 Public -rw------- 1 paul paul 402 Jan 21 00:09 Qjackctl.xml drwx------ 1 paul paul 10 Jan 6 01:28 .sane drwx------ 1 paul paul 200 Dec 21 2020 .steam lrwxrwxrwx 1 paul paul 29 Dec 21 2020 .steampath -> /home/paul/.steam/sdk32/steam lrwxrwxrwx 1 paul paul 27 Dec 21 2020 .steampid -> /home/paul/.steam/steam.pid drwx------ 1 paul paul 28 Jan 20 03:25 .swt drwx------ 1 paul paul 0 Oct 14 2020 Templates drwx------ 1 paul paul 180 Jan 14 23:59 .thunderbird drwx------ 1 paul paul 6 Jan 19 23:32 .var drwx------ 1 paul paul 58 Dec 11 12:00 Videos -rw------- 1 paul paul 773 Jan 4 14:01 .viminfo drwx------ 1 paul paul 0 Jan 21 14:12 Wav-Files -rw------- 1 paul paul 2.0K Oct 10 2020 .xim.template ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- paul@paul-Thinkcentre-M57p:~>
Thinkcentre-M57p:~> groups paul paul : paul audio cdrom
------------------------------------------------------------ Thinkcentre-M57p:~> id -a uid=1000(paul) gid=100 groups=100,488(cdrom)
cat /etc/passwd paul:x:1000:1000:Paul:/home/paul:/bin/bash ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I passed as superuser: chmod -R go-rwx at /home/paul then chmod -R go-rwx inside /home/paul after changing groups. Was this a mistake to have done this, following the chgrp -R paul /home/paul ? I can significantly attempt to affirm that user paul was the first user to be added during installation of the openSUSE Tumbleweed on the machine (install was maybe 2 years ago on this particular machine). I honestly do not know why each user after the supposed first user added to the OS *has* to become a member of the users group. I noticed all of this while doing some minor work in user account deb. I noticed that I was able to cd into /home/paul and subdirectories without any problem (from user deb).
🤐thanks
On 2024-01-22 02:03, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
Hi, I am looking to change group ownership for the entire user paul's home folder, it's subdirectories and also all symlinks.
Thinkcentre-M57p:/home> ls -lah
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 14 Jan 21 18:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 142 Jun 3 2021 ..
drwx------ 1 deb deb 318 Jan 21 15:12 deb
drwxr-xr-x 1 paul users 868 Jan 21 18:14 paul
paul@paul-Thinkcentre-M57p:/home>
Passing: chgrp -LR paul users
Is how I believe chgrp should be used in this case.
Does this look correct to you? If not why and is there a better command for this purpose?
-L is dangerous.
If you have symlinks on directories from other users, or system things, it will try to change the permissions of the target. If you run the command as your user, it is probably safe because those should fail; but if you are root, the command will succeed.