I just had the situation this bloke is tlking about: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/23/2003/09/2/91333
Accidently chmoded way to far up a tree and stuffed win4lin. This script enables a restoration of the permissions to the stuffed tree. YKmMV as the chown relates to uid/gid not actual names. HTH Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug