transfer owner from deleted user to new one

[Carles Viaplana]

Hello,

When I delete a user using SAM system asks me if I want to transfer all files from this user to new one.

Does this option transfer owner for ALL files or just these from home directory?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,

Carles

[Pedro Cosmen · Accepted solution]

Carles,

It will transfer all files.

Regards

[Pete Randall]

I just ran a little test and it transferred files in the user's home directory and a test file I had placed directly under /home. So, I did another test with a file under /tmp and it also transferred the /tmp file.

It would appear that it transfers ALL files.


Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Carles:

Should you wish to find "un-owned" files, do:

# find / -type f -nouser | xargs ls -l

...or files with no defined group:

# find / -type f -nogroup | xargs ls -l

...or to restrict searches to a particular mountpoint:

# find /path -xdev -type f -nouser | xargs ls -l

...of course having found files you can 'chown' them to someone or some group at that time:

# find /path -xdev -nouser | xargs chown bin:bin

...to find both files and directories that in '/path' that are unowned and should be changed to belong to the user 'bin' with a group of 'bin' too.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Carles Viaplana]

Thanks to all for your help!

Regards,

Carles