How to recover the files' owner and group

[fanyong]

I run this command

# chown -R data:data /usr

when telnet to this system ,it told me
"Unable to set uid/gid"
and close this Connection.

How to correct owner and group of /usr?

[fanyong]

add:

#uname -a
HP-UX legendn4 B.11.00 U 9000/800 631349303 unlimited-user license

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi ,
boot the system in single user mode.
mount /usr
then try to change owener:group as below

10 bin bin 2048 Mar 31 2001 lbin
35 bin bin 8192 Sep 14 17:21 lib
8 bin bin 1024 Apr 6 2001 local
2 root root 96 Mar 31 2001 lost+found
1 root sys 9 Mar 31 2001 mail -> /var/mail
1 root sys 14 Mar 31 2001 man -> /usr/share/man
1 root sys 13 Mar 31 2001 netls -> /var/opt/ifor
7 bin bin 1024 Mar 31 2001 newconfig
1 root sys 9 Mar 31 2001 news -> /var/news
4 bin bin 96 Mar 31 2001 obam
6 bin bin 1024 Mar 31 2001 old
1 root sys 13 Mar 31 2001 preserve -> /var/prese

1 root sys 18 Mar 31 2001 pub -> /usr/share/lib/

6 bin bin 96 Mar 31 2001 sam
8 bin bin 7168 Apr 1 2001 sbin
6 bin bin 96 Mar 31 2001 share
1 root sys 10 Mar 31 2001 spool -> /var/spool
1 root sys 8 Mar 31 2001 tmp -> /var/tmp
8 bin bin 1024 Mar 31 2001 tsm
4 bin bin 96 Mar 31 2001 vue

Animesh

[Ravi_8]

Hi,
you have committed a big mistake. some of the files/directories /usr are owned by root/bin/system. You need to change the ownership of the files by looking at the another system which works fine. Or if you have ignite backup just restore from backup. if you want only telnet to work at present just do # chown bin:bin /usr/bin/telnet

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

You should not have run a chown data:data
on /usr. There are many directories that
have files that have ownership crucial to
the system. looks like you have flattened
the shells so that you can't login normally.
You can do one of two things, if you are
logged in already check with another system
for it's directory structure or restore it
from backup tape.
-Michael

[fanyong]

Thanks,

But there are lots of file under the /usr.

I have change some of them and the root user can telnet in.
However others given the mssage
"Unable to set uid/gid"

[Santosh Nair_1]

Here is a link to a similar problem, but in that case, the user changed permissions from / down:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x8892abe92dabd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

I'm trying to hunt down Adreas' script in the mean time.

-Santosh

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Over a year ago, Andreas Voss developed a script to rectify a similar problem. Here is his original post:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xa7ef6c96588ad4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

All systems ( UNIXs) have their own software installer, and usualy a revorever.


in HP-UX this is swverify - man 1m swverify-. Check it.

[fanyong]

I had change the ownership of the files by looking at the another system which works fine.