Hi,
While changing ownerships from the root on a server i'm managing, i typed chown -R username:users * and it changed all ownership to username. Can someone tell me if there is someway I can set things back the way they were before? I can't even su username from the root. Am I going to just... (4 Replies)
all the files and directories in my system are owned by root only.i try to(from root loggin) change the permission on the file but not permitted.can any one help to fix my problem .also while installing any software always error occur like no makefile available (1 Reply)
ok. this is a bit complicated.
i have a manager here who wants me to give another user access to all the files he owns. he wants this other user to have the same rights has he does.
the problem has been that whenever the manager creates a new file the permissions on the files created... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need a command that to copy files from others and to keep files' ownership.
Example: I copy file.txt from users "abc" to my local, and file.txt is own by user "abc" in local.
Thanks in advance! (3 Replies)
So tried:
cp -r -p test1/ user@machine:///srv/www/vhosts/domain.co.uk/httpdocs/backup/
but this didn't work either :(
Anyone able to help with this?
Many thanks
Mr M (3 Replies)
I am in the process of learning how to do system administration (just on my own Linux machine) and have been working with the find command. One of the things I tried was
find / -nouser -o -nogroup
I redirected the output of my find query into a text file, and when I did a wc -l on it, it... (1 Reply)
When I checked to see who or what owns the files in my bin directory I noticed that some were owned by root while many others were owned by bin.
Should I be concerned that there are files in this directory owned by bin or is bin the same as root as it pertains to limiting access to the files in... (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have create a new user with uid and gid as 0 in SuSE-11 Server. After that all the files having root owner ship are showing as new user name as owner. If I login as root, and type 'id' command, it also shows the new user.
Sample output from my server.
host:~ # id
uid=0(test)... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to shell scripting.Please help me on this.I am using solaris 10 OS and shell i am using is
# echo $0
-sh
My requirement is i have source file say makefile.I need to extract files with extensions (.c |.cxx |.h |.hxx |.sc) from the makefile.after doing so i need to check whether... (13 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX
pts_chown
PTS_CHOWN(1) AFS Command Reference PTS_CHOWN(1)NAME
pts_chown - Changes the owner of a Protection Database entry
SYNOPSIS
pts chown -name <group name> -owner <new owner>
[-cell <cell name>] [-noauth] [-localauth] [-force] [-help]
pts cho -na <group name> -o <new owner>
[-c <cell name>] [-no] [-l] [-f] [-h]
DESCRIPTION
The pts chown command designates the user or group named by the -owner argument as the owner of the group named by the -name argument, and
records the new owner in the owner field of the group's Protection Database entry.
In the case of regular groups, this command automatically changes the group name's owner prefix (the part of the group name before the
colon) to match the new owner. If the new owner is itself a group, then only its owner prefix, not its complete name, becomes the owner
prefix in the new name. The change to the owner prefix does not propagate to any groups owned by the group, however. To make the owner
prefix of such group-owned groups reflect the new owning group, use the pts rename command.
It is not possible to change a user or machine entry's owner from the default set at creation time, the system:administrators group.
CAUTIONS
While designating a machine as a group's owner does not cause an error, it is not recommended. The Protection Server does not extend the
usual privileges of group ownership to users logged onto the machine.
OPTIONS -name <group name>
Specifies the current name of the group to which to assign a new owner.
-owner <new owner>
Names the user or group to become the group's owner.
-cell <cell name>
Names the cell in which to run the command. For more details, see pts(1).
-force
Enables the command to continue executing as far as possible when errors or other problems occur, rather than halting execution at the
first error.
-help
Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.
-localauth
Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. Do not combine this flag with the -cell or
-noauth options. For more details, see pts(1).
-noauth
Assigns the unprivileged identity anonymous to the issuer. For more details, see pts(1).
EXAMPLES
The following example changes the owner of the group "terry:friends" from the user "terry" to the user "pat". A side effect is that the
group name changes to "pat:friends".
% pts chown -name terry:friends -owner pat
The following example changes the owner of the group "terry:friends" from the user "terry" to the group "pat:buddies". A side effect is
that the group name changes to "pat:friends".
% pts chown -name terry:friends -owner pat:buddies
PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
The issuer must belong to the system:administrators group or currently own the group.
SEE ALSO pts(1), pts_rename(1)COPYRIGHT
IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.
This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas
Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.
OpenAFS 2014-04-08 PTS_CHOWN(1)