restoring home directories permissions.

[vishal]

Hello All,

All the permissions of directories in /home partition are chmod to 711, owner and group as root. How can I fix the owner, group and permissions according to the user. Please help.

Thank you,

[dgbaker]

711 is correct just the ownership needs to be corrected. You can do this running the following commands in shell as root;

for CPAccess in `ls -A /var/cpanel/users`; do chown -R $CPAccess:$CPAccess /home/$CPAccess; done

for CPAccess in `ls -A /var/cpanel/users`; do chown -R $CPAccess:mail /home/$CPAccess/etc /home/$CPAccess/mail; done

for CPAccess in `ls -A /var/cpanel/users`; do chown -R $CPAccess:nobody /home/$CPAccess/public_html; done

[vishal]

Thank you very much. That help me out.

[dianaward]

to new servers via WHM and the permissions were a MESS. Thanks. I want to be you when I grow up.

[dgbaker]

to new servers via WHM and the permissions were a MESS. Thanks. I want to be you when I grow up.

The sex change may not be worth the hassle.

[kalitebil]

Must we write like this?
do chown -R $CPAccess:$CPAccess /home/$CPAccess

[dgbaker]

Use the commands exactly as they are written.

[kalitebil]

ide0(3,3): warning, user block quota exceeded
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it is giving this error.

[dgbaker]

?? Are you logged in as root??

If logged in as root, try logging out and back in.

[sv1]

I get :
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'

[dgbaker]

What was the command you typed? They MUST be EXACTLY as shown below.

for CPAccess in `ls -A /var/cpanel/users`; do chown -R $CPAccess:$CPAccess /home/$CPAccess; done

for CPAccess in `ls -A /var/cpanel/users`; do chown -R $CPAccess:mail /home/$CPAccess/etc /home/$CPAccess/mail; done

for CPAccess in `ls -A /var/cpanel/users`; do chown -R $CPAccess:nobody /home/$CPAccess/public_html; done

[sv1]

This has corrected the errors. Thank you for your help :-)

[verdon]

david... for those of us with just enough knowledge to be dangerous, would you have the patience to explain those command? I do understand the basics in each string, but I'm not sure about the structure of each complete command line... maybe I'll guess...

for CPAccess in `ls -A /var/cpanel/users`;
... is this part starting a foreach type loop and assigning the var name CPAccess to represent the name of each user in /var/cpanel/users ?

do chown -R $CPAccess:$CPAccess /home/$CPAccess;
... and then this part is chowning each corresponding user dir it finds

done
... and then this part closes the foreach looping when it runs out of matches?

cool

[dgbaker]

Aces!! Dead on. That's exactly what is does.

[verdon]

By George, I think I'm getting it!

That's pretty elegant.