[NBLUG/talk] Moving permissions

[Daniel Kinon]

If he doesn't want to bother with adding new users and all that...
wouldn't it be simpler to just move the files over and then, as root, do
a recursive chown into that directory something like this.

say the user is me
chown -R dan:dan directory/

or is that a no no?


-Dan

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 09:13, Dustin Mollo wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 08:36:16AM -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
> > What happens if the "owners" are not on the new machine?  I would like 
> > to avoid the tedious task of creating users and groups on the new box.
> 
> you could simply copy and paste the appropriate lines from the passwd,
> group, shadow and gshadow files from the 'old' box to the 'new' box.  if you
> don't, then all the directories and files will be owned by just uid's and
> gid's (ie, no magic resolving to usernames and groupnames.)  if the
> permissions are not such that people in the 'other' category in the
> permissions bits can access the files and groups, then they will be
> unaccessable by anyone on the 'new' box.
> 
> to sum up, either way, you need to somehow create the users and groups on
> the 'new' box.
> 
> -dustin
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