[Klug-general] A cli for bulk owner changes?

[Michael E. Rentell]

Excellent. Very very many thanks for that Mike. It worked perfectly and 
now I can use my email again from my own user desk instead of popping up 
the cli and doing it via sudo.

Super service.

MikeR

On 21/10/11 20:46, MacGyveR wrote:
> On Friday 21 October 2011 17:06:11 Mike Evans wrote:
>> This is exactly the sort of job where the command line is your friend -
>> and that is equally so in Windows/DOS also.
>>
>> chown and chgrp will help you.
>>
>> Assuming you want everything under /home/user to belong to user do
>>
>> sudo chown -R user /home/user
>> sudo chgrp -R user /home/user
>>
>> at least I think that's it - check the manual page as I don't have time
>> to do that right at the moment and this is from memory.
>>
>>     man chown
>>
>> for example.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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> You can just use one command:
>
> sudo chown user: -R /home/user
>
> As the ":" in the live above, sets the primary group of the user specified.
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