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Old 12-23-2003, 01:48 PM   #1
ziggie216
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chown & chmod is mess up

when I untar something, the user and group name is wrong. also the chmod is dwxr-s-r-x for a folder. any way I can fix this?

i'm seeing couple of passwd files that I did not create
passwd- passwd.lock passwd,v
Last edited by ziggie216; 12-23-2003 at 01:54 PM.
 
Old 12-23-2003, 03:43 PM   #2
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Try:
chown -R user:group /path/to/dir
find -type d -exec chown a+rx,o+w,g+s {} \;
 
  


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