On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 00:09 +0100, Matthias Kurz wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005, David M. Fetter wrote:
> 
> > So, we have a problem on of our newly built systems.  It was jumpstarted
> > and OpenPKG installed as part of that, but the openpkg user accounts
> > (opkg, opkg-r & opkg-n) were not detected.  Now all of the files are
> > improperly chowned.  What would the best way be to reset all of the
> > permissions back to the default?  I'm thinking some sort of openpkg rpm
> > query that lists all of the files installed in every rpm package then
> > piping that to some xargs command that chowns them right.  I'm not sure
> > what options from rpm would provide me the owner and group of each file
> > it lists though.  Anybody have any ideas?
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I'm not sure, whether i understand the problem. I would expect that
> new accounts are created, when existing ones were not detected. Then this
> would be a mapping problem
> (find /prefix -user/group <wrongNumID>|xargs chown/chgrp <rightNumID>).
> .. anyways, it's late...
> Check "openpkg man rpm" for the options "--verify" (shows problems) and
> --setugids (corrects problems). Maybe this helps.

Ah, groovy.  Yeah, I'm just slammed right now, so I was being lazy on
this one.  Thanks.

> 
> 
>    (mk)
> 
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David M. Fetter - UNIX Systems Administrator
Portland State University - www.oit.pdx.edu

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