2008-04-14
If the users home directories and files gets accidently changed in
bulk (eg using a chown -R
in the wrong place), this script
will change the ownership of their directories and files back to their
username and primary group.
One advantage of this script is that if the user name or group can’t be found (eg not in the passwd or group files), the default owner or group of the directory or files is changed to root.
for dir in `ls -1 /home` ; do
user=`id $dir | awk -F [\(\)] '{print $2}'`
group=`id $dir | awk -F [\(\)] '{print $4}'`
chown -R $user:$group $dir
done