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I've found a bizarre problem with file permissions on my OSX server. For no apparent reason, the owners of folders/files are changing to a numerical id.
For instance:
drwxr-xr-x 11 psharman LANG_Tut 330 Feb 1 15:39 psharman
turns itself into
drwxr-xr-x 11 170 LANG_Tut 330 Feb 1 15:39 psharman
i suspect that the 170 might in fact be the id that is allocated to the user when the account is created but why is it changing? When it turns into a number that user can login but cannot save anything because they don't have privileges to access their own folder!
turning it back into this:
drwxr-xr-x 11 psharman LANG_Tut 330 Feb 1 15:39 psharman
fixes the problems...
Any ideas? this is becoming a major issue, as I have 900 users over 8 share points, and a couple of hundred have already done this for no apparent reason.
Is there anyway to easily parse through the entire folder and change the owner to the name of the folder other than me having to manually go through and chmod them all?!?
thanks in advance
EMH
For instance:
drwxr-xr-x 11 psharman LANG_Tut 330 Feb 1 15:39 psharman
turns itself into
drwxr-xr-x 11 170 LANG_Tut 330 Feb 1 15:39 psharman
i suspect that the 170 might in fact be the id that is allocated to the user when the account is created but why is it changing? When it turns into a number that user can login but cannot save anything because they don't have privileges to access their own folder!
turning it back into this:
drwxr-xr-x 11 psharman LANG_Tut 330 Feb 1 15:39 psharman
fixes the problems...
Any ideas? this is becoming a major issue, as I have 900 users over 8 share points, and a couple of hundred have already done this for no apparent reason.
Is there anyway to easily parse through the entire folder and change the owner to the name of the folder other than me having to manually go through and chmod them all?!?
thanks in advance
EMH