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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Copying the .profile of one user to another. Post 302740449 by jyoung on Thursday 6th of December 2012 07:52:25 AM
Old 12-06-2012
You might also want to use the chown command to change the ownership of the profile once it is copied to the new home directory. You may also have to use the chgrp command if the group is different.
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LFC-CHGRP(1)							 LFC User Commands						      LFC-CHGRP(1)

NAME
lfc-chgrp - change group ownership of a LFC directory/file in the name server SYNOPSIS
lfc-chgrp [-h] [-R] group path... DESCRIPTION
lfc-chgrp sets the group ownership of a LFC directory/file in the name server to the value of group. To change the group ID, the effective user ID of the process must match the owner ID of the file and the new group must be in the list of groups the caller belong to or the caller must have ADMIN privilege in the Cupv database. group is either a valid group name or a valid numeric ID. path specifies the LFC pathname. If path does not start with /, it is prefixed by the content of the LFC_HOME environment variable. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -h If path is a symbolic link, changes the ownership of the link itself. -R Recursive mode. EXIT STATUS
This program returns 0 if the operation was successful or >0 if the operation failed. SEE ALSO
Castor_limits(4), lfc_chown(3), Cupvlist(1) AUTHOR
LCG Grid Deployment Team LFC
$Date: 2007/01/13 10:35:39 $ LFC-CHGRP(1)
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