>>>>> Ethan Benson writes:
eb> if you extract the home directories after creating the new user
eb> accounts they should get the new ownership properly as GNU tar is
eb> fairly smart about this sort of thing.
Actually, a tar file (according to POSIX) can have the uid only
represented as a number. So tar will extract the archive using the
old permissions. The obvious solution would be a chown -R, but that
might not be good if the users have other people's files. Once again,
find comes to the rescue.
# find . -uid 500 | xargs chown 1000.1000
Of course, you should modify it so that you're sure that it works, but
you get the idea. You could set up a script and run it in /home/ that
does something like this and then everyone's files get the right
permissions.
--
Chris
