Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 1997 19:29:49 +0200 (EET) | From | Johan Myréen <> | Subject | Re: again security proposal |
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On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Yuri Kuzmenko wrote:
> No... See my message. chown must be run from root. This is "standard" > operation (changing user uid, etc).
Well, if changing the user id is a "standard" operation (which it should not be, if you do some planning), the correct way to change ownership of the user's files is the following:
find / -uid 123 -exec chown user {} \; # Old user id = 123
This should be obvious if you think of the semantics of the UNIX file system.
-- Johan Myreen jem@iki.fi
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