Passing File ownership

[rsebasti]

Whenever I delete a user account from NDS all related files owned by the account will be passsed to supervisor.

Whenever I clean up 'to be deleted' accounts I now have to check the files they've used and check with the old users' manager who should acquire these files. Then I tell them to copy the old files and delete the original to pass on ownership.

There must be a quicker way.

Any ideas on removing users? Passing ownership to another account? ========================================
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[salserocito]

I go through this task on an almost daily basis. Unfortunatly, there is not a thing that can be done about that.

It's a known thing... When you delete a User, it DOES NOT delete the User's Home Directory structure. That has to be done manually. Whether you copy it somewhere else or delete it is up to you.

Good Luck!

 

[rsebasti]

sal,
If you only have home drives to worry about then I am on a worse boat than you. My users have departamental share drives where they share files. Which means they can have files all everywhere.

I have the facility to gather the information regarding their files but I need a command or even a comman line that can transfer file ownership from one person to another.

If a command line that does this exists I can start scripting. ========================================
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[rjs]

The FLAG command can list all files with a given owner. It can also change the ownership of files. Instead of deleting the user, disable the account, then change the ownership with FLAG, then delete the user.

 

[salserocito]

Ohhh, now I understand what you are after.

Here's what ya need to do...

From a DOS Prompt, you can use the FLAG command. The following syntax should work...

FLAG *.* /OWNER=XXX

To determine which files are owned by a particular User, try this...

FLAG *.* /NAME=XXX

Good Luck