File Permissions

[Aggy]

We had rw-rw-rw- permissions set on most of the files and hence the owner did not matter, now I had changed the permissions to rw-rw-r—and hence most of the users have problems because some files had different owners and group.

Ideally we need most of the data files owner/group to be set as bdprod:bd

What I need is to find files which are not owned by bdprod:bd so that I can change the owner/group accordingly

[Piergiacomo Perini]

Hy Aggy,

try with "-group gname" option of find command.

hth
regards
pg

[Pete Randall]

Try the "not user" option of find:

find /startdir ! -user bdprod


Pete

[Peter Nikitka · Accepted solution]

Hi,

to get all files not having an ownership of bdprod:bg changed to this, use:
cd this/dir &&
find . -type f \( ! -group bd -o ! -user bdprod \) -print | xargs chown bdprod:bg

Please carefully check the directory change - running this command sequence in system directories can ruin your system!

mfG Peter

[Dennis Handly]

$ find path \( ! -group bd -o ! -user bdprod \)

Of course you can just change them all:
$ chown bdprod:bd *

You can add -R for recursive too.

[Aggy]

Thanks