The home directory for the root account must be on the root filesystem. Your issue was probably that /home was not mounted when you wanted to log in as root in single user. Nowadays the home directory for root is usually /root .
Providing that directory /home has permissions 755 I don't think it matters who owns it. It would normally be root.
Suggest you run a "find" from root and check every file or directory still owned by user "datatel".
Hi all,
what happens if i have a service running as root?
if it is exploited what would happen?
can a hacker actually becomes a hacker and screw up my whole box?
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From within a directory, how do I determine whether I have write permission for it.
test -w pwd ; echo ?
This doesn't work as it returns false, even though I have write permission. (4 Replies)
Hi all,
We have some files are under 744 permissions and the the owner is say owner1 and group1.
Now we have another user owner2 of group2, owner2 can remove files of the owner1 and the permission of those files are 744, unix admin told us he did some config at his side so we can do that.
... (14 Replies)
hai,
I am new to Unix, I have a requirement to display owner name , directory or sub directory name, who's owner name is not equal to "oasitqtc".
(here "oasitqtc" is the owner of the directory or sub directory.)
i have a command (below) which will display all folders and sub folders, but i... (6 Replies)
Would the owner as listed , be the one who made the directory in the first place. when any one could use chown in a script.
I do not know where this directory came form or who made it. And am attempting to just find out more info on it.
what could i use to find its origins and its why does it... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm the root user on my computer, but I'm writing a script that does a lot of file handling. Every time I create a file or directory it automatically requires root privileges. Is there a way I can just create a file that the user can access without a password?
For example in my script I... (20 Replies)
Hi.
My example:
I have a filesystem /log. Everyday, log files are copied to /log. I'd like to set owner and permission for files and directories in /log like that
chown -R log_adm /log/*
chmod -R 544 /log/*It's OK, but just at that time. When a new log file or new directory is created in /log,... (8 Replies)
Hi Team,
Am a newbie to Unix. As I would like to see the Server Name,Owner Name ( not numeric form), Group Name ( not numeric ID), ROOT path.
I would like to send this list as an attachment to my personal mail. Can any one please help me out to to resolve this .
Here is the sample result... (6 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
chown
chown(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands chown(1B)NAME
chown - change owner
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/chown [-fR] owner[.group] filename...
DESCRIPTION
chown changes the owner of the filenames to owner. The owner can be either a decimal user ID (UID) or a login name found in the password
file. An optional group can also be specified. The group can be either a decimal group ID (GID) or a group name found in the GID file.
In the default case, only the super-user of the machine where the file is physically located can change the owner. The system configura-
tion option {_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED} and the privileges PRIV_FILE_CHOWN and PRIV_FILE_CHOWN_SELF also affect who can change the ownership
of a file. See chown(2) and privileges(5).
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-f Do not report errors.
-R Recursively descend into directories setting the ownership of all files in each directory encountered. When symbolic links are
encountered, their ownership is changed, but they are not traversed.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of chown when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
FILES
/etc/passwd Password file
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO chgrp(1), chown(2), group(4), passwd(4), attributes(5), largefile(5), privileges(5)SunOS 5.11 21 Jun 2004 chown(1B)