Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 16:00 +0100, George Borisov wrote: > Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > > > That has to do with what's in /etc/sudoers, I imagine. When > > I've gotten that error, it's meant that sudoers is > > configured to only let me run one or two commands. > > By default it's not configured t

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > Do you mean that by default, people aren't sudoers? That's > certainly correct. But if you're not a sudoer, then you > probably don't have the root password either -- in which > case it will be impossible for you to run any command > featuring 'find /'. What I mean is

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 04:00:49PM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > By default it's not configured to allow you to run any at all, which is > what I originally meant. Do you mean that by default, people aren't sudoers? That's certainly correct. But if you're not a sudoer, then you probably don't hav

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > That has to do with what's in /etc/sudoers, I imagine. When > I've gotten that error, it's meant that sudoers is > configured to only let me run one or two commands. By default it's not configured to allow you to run any at all, which is what I originally meant. --

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:50:52PM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > Sorry, user george is not allowed to execute '/usr/bin/find / -uid 1000' > as root on dxs-wksd-195. That has to do with what's in /etc/sudoers, I imagine. When I've gotten that error, it's meant that sudoers is configured to only le

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

I hate not being able to copy/paste between my two machines :-( Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:21:24AM +0100, George Borisov wrote: >> >> (I've removed the 'sudo' bits, as it would not work with the default >> setup.) > > I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? ---

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:21:24AM +0100, George Borisov wrote: >> (I've removed the 'sudo' bits, as it would not work with the default >> setup.) > > I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? --- $ find / -uid OLDUID | xargs -I [] chown NEWUID [] Password: Sorry, u

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:21:24AM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > (I've removed the 'sudo' bits, as it would not work with the default > setup.) I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

#include * George Borisov [Thu, Jun 15 2006, 11:21:24AM]: > Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > > > sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' > > Thanks for introducing me to the xargs command - never heard of it > before, but I am sure it will come in handy some day. :-) > > The '

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

Johannes Zellner wrote: > > is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in > the file system, say from 1234 to 5000? You can use a simple bash script. Try (as root:) for f in `find / -uid OLDUID`; do chown NEWUID $f; done Hope this helps, -- George Borisov DXSolutions

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' Thanks for introducing me to the xargs command - never heard of it before, but I am sure it will come in handy some day. :-) The '-i' option is deprecated in xargs from unstable, though. Alternative seems

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:16:05PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:07:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > chown --recursive onion: foo > > > > will change the owners of all the files in the foo file-tree to onion, > > and change their gropu IDs accordingly. Leave

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:07:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > chown --recursive onion: foo > > will change the owners of all the files in the foo file-tree to onion, > and change their gropu IDs accordingly. Leave off the colons if you > want them to stay in the old group. But this will

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:02:43PM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote: > Hello, > > is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in > the file system, say from 1234 to 5000? chown --recursive onion: foo will change the owners of all the files in the foo file-tree to onion, and

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:16:25PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' > Shouldn't it be followed by a semicolon? Had I done sudo find / -uid [old UID] -exec chown [new UID] '{}' \; then yes. But with xargs, no. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTE

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

Stephen R Laniel wrote: sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' Shouldn't it be followed by a semicolon? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:02:43PM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote: > is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in > the file system, say from 1234 to 5000? sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 3