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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How can i copy user permissions(privileges) to a group Post 302247154 by The Dark Knight on Wednesday 15th of October 2008 04:44:28 AM

10-15-2008

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otheus

Would this work?

Code:

# you must be root
cd /home
for m in *; do 
  gid=`getent group $m | cut -d: -f4`
  find $m -exec echo chgrp $gid "{}" ";"
done

Remove the "echo" when you think it's going to work.

I used it like this exactly

cd /home
for m in *; do
gid=`getent group $m | cut -d: -f4`
find $m -exec chgrp $gid "/home/username" ";"
done

and i got a infinite list of :-

Usage: chgrp [-fhR] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
chgrp -R [-H | -L | -P] [-f] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
Usage: chgrp [-fhR] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
chgrp -R [-H | -L | -P] [-f] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
Usage: chgrp [-fhR] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
chgrp -R [-H | -L | -P] [-f] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
Usage: chgrp [-fhR] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
chgrp -R [-H | -L | -P] [-f] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
Usage: chgrp [-fhR] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
chgrp -R [-H | -L | -P] [-f] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
Usage: chgrp [-fhR] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
chgrp -R [-H | -L | -P] [-f] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
Usage: chgrp [-fhR] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...
chgrp -R [-H | -L | -P] [-f] {GroupName | GroupID} File ...

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lfc-chgrp

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

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							   $Date: 2007/01/13 10:35:39 $ 					      LFC-CHGRP(1)