Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Mike Roy [08-14-05 10:28]:

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As you may remember from 'dumb guy number 1', I saved my old /home/mike directory on a separate HD and was able to recover all of my working files. That's the good news. The bad news is that they all are now listed as ROOT everything (user, group). I know there's commands to change individual files, etc. (chmod, chown), but is there a way I can change the permissions of a directory and all of its contents without doing each file individually?

That is what 'man' files are for.

man chown

chown mike:users -R /home/mike

will reassign owner to mike and group to users for every file/directory under /home/mike and the directory /home/mike.

Hello everyone: That worked!!!! :-) Thanks Mike

On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 12:53 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Mike Roy [08-14-05 12:04]:

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That worked!!!! :-)

But you still have a possible problem. Were there files that you did not want to have those perms???? Because they now *all* have mike:users.

Patrick, isn't a mike:users about what SuSE does when it takes over an existing /home/mike directory on a new install, with the old /home partition?

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 12:13 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Mike McMullin [08-15-05 00:20]:

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Patrick, isn't a mike:users about what SuSE does when it takes over an existing /home/mike directory on a new install, with the old /home partition?

I don't know as I have never "upgraded". I always do a clean install with a separate /home/{user} and then copy settings I want to preserve. But I do have owners other than {user}:users under /home/{user}.

When I updated 8.2 to 9.1 it prompted for user creation and did change the ownership which as I remember in 9.1 first users were based on 1000 prior to that they were 500. Suse does not trash your home directory you do. I have always done my clean installs on the same drive and have yet to lose my home directory. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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That is what 'man' files are for.

man chown

chown mike:users -R /home/mike

will reassign owner to mike and group to users for every file/directory under /home/mike and the directory /home/mike.

Yeah, but, Patrick, the big problem with man pages is that you have to already know something before you can find it :-). John Perry

On Sunday 14 August 2005 04:37 pm, John Perry wrote:

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Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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That is what 'man' files are for.

man chown

chown mike:users -R /home/mike

will reassign owner to mike and group to users for every file/directory under /home/mike and the directory /home/mike.

Yeah, but, Patrick, the big problem with man pages is that you have to already know something before you can find it :-).

John Perry

Not always..... apropos <subject>

James Knott wrote:

Felix Miata wrote:

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On a related note, where is the proper place (and what is the proper method) to set umask on SuSE systems?

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.profile? .bashrc? rc.local? other?

If for everyone, you'd set it in /etc/profile.local, though the default is set in /etc/profile. If only for individual users, ~/.bashrc.

No wonder I couldn't figure it out on my own. Who would think profile global but bashrc individual.

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What man page covers this (and other environment adjustments)?

Again, what man page hides this gem?

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For example, though I am in US and always install US English, I always want normal 24 hour time, not that American 2 12 hour days per day nonsense. So, I want globally en_DK rather than en_US.

Where are you looking for the time? At the command prompt, I've got 24H time, even though I'm using US English.

LC_TIME is how Mozilla Mail when on global en_US locale knows to use standard 24 hour time instead of the idiotic American 2 12 hours days per day. However, I did use the word "global", because I want 24 hour time regardless of context. -- "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" Matthew 6:27 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

I just wrote:

On Sunday, August 14, 2005 @7:28 AM, Mike Roy wrote:

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Hello everyone: As you may remember from 'dumb guy number 1', I saved my old /home/mike directory on a separate HD and was able to recover all of my working files. That's the good news. The bad news is that they all are now listed as ROOT everything (user, group). I know there's commands to change individual files, etc. (chmod, chown), but is there a way I can change the permissions of a directory and all of its contents without doing each file individually? Any ideas greatly appreciated. Otherwise I'll be here until Thanksgiving :-\ Cheers, Mike

chmod -R directory

Greg Wallace

Oops. Should be -- chmod -R ugo directory Where u=user permissions,g=group permissions,o=others permissions. E. g., chmod -R 666 /directory... Also, instead of an absolute set of permissions, you can say u+r, u-r, g+r, g+w, etc., etc. Greg Wallace