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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Changing permissions of a user Post 22418 by thehoghunter on Monday 3rd of June 2002 02:11:06 PM
Old 06-03-2002
Okay, to get the OS - post the output of the uname -a command.
(check the man page before doing anything anyone tells you to do - just so you know they didn't get you to kill something ;-)

% uname -a

Is there a command userconf? Not on my servers - I searched the forums and found it posted one other time as an answer but it didn't note what the OS was. Since we don't know what you are running yet, hard to say. Each UNIX version is different - when I went from Solaris to AIX (only for 4 months) I was blown away by what did not work anymore (commands that SUN added to their software - mostly for administration).

It sounds like you are looking to be able to change files so check out the following man pages for your system -
% man id
% man who
% man chmod
% man chown

Make sure if you start changing ownership and permissions that it isn't going to
1. Make your system unsecure.
2. Break an application or server because joeuser now owns all the files.

If you need more info, post back
thehoghunter
 

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