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Re: All settings are lost at logout

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On Mon 21 Nov 2016 at 12:23:49 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 21 November 2016 11:58:39 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:53:35AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Call up a terminal, and type:
> > >
> > > cd
> > > sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername *
> >
> > This will miss the dot files, and the home directory itself.
> >
> > sudo chown -R "$LOGNAME:$LOGNAME" .
> >
> True, my bad.  OTOH, if he has somehow lost ownership of /home/him, he 
> has a much larger problem, and he will need to become root and cd 
> to /home, then use your command line verbatum, but I would first
> 
> echo $LOGNAME
> 
> To find out who the system really things he is.
> 
> > And of course, you are doing this interactively, NOT in a script,
> > which means you should notice if the cd fails.  If the cd fails, DO
> > NOT run the chown command.
> 
> Yep, he has much bigger problems in that event.
> 
> > It would also be a good idea to *check* the ownerships of everything
> > before doing the chown, just to make sure you're solving the correct
> > problem.
> 
> In my case thats around 35 Gb of stuff to sift thru as my email corpus 
> goes back to around 2002 in some maildirs. Since I should absolutely own 
> everything in my ~/usr directory, its just easier to let the system do 
> it since it can't hurt anything.  I don't know of, or am not familiar 
> with, any tool in our bag of tricks that could easily find the missed 
> ownership(s).

Well, you could start from

# find / -mount -not -group 0 -exec ls -ld {} \; -o -not -user 0 -exec ls -ld {} \;

which is for listing all non-root.root files on a root filesystem.
Substitute an appropriate pathname for / and user number for 0.

> Obviously the thought of doing that at the filesystems root = / would 
> inflict damages similar to an rm -Rf. Common sense will be needed.

Cheers,
David.

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All settings are lost at logout 70147persson@telia.com - 2016-11-20 15:50 +0100
  Re: All settings are lost at logout Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-11-21 16:00 +0100
    Re: All settings are lost at logout Kaj <70147persson@telia.com> - 2016-11-21 17:00 +0100
      Re: All settings are lost at logout Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-11-21 17:20 +0100
        Re: All settings are lost at logout Kaj <70147persson@telia.com> - 2016-11-22 00:40 +0100
          Re: All settings are lost at logout Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-22 00:50 +0100
            Re: All settings are lost at logout Kaj <70147persson@telia.com> - 2016-11-22 11:10 +0100
  Re: All settings are lost at logout Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-21 18:00 +0100
    Re: All settings are lost at logout Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-11-21 18:30 +0100
      Re: All settings are lost at logout David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-21 18:40 +0100
        Re: All settings are lost at logout Kaj <70147persson@telia.com> - 2016-11-22 14:00 +0100
  Re: All settings are lost at logout Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-11-21 18:00 +0100
    Re: All settings are lost at logout Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-21 18:20 +0100

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