If you mess up with the ownership of all the users on a cPanel server, following script will help you to correct the ownership:
#!/bin/bash
for i in `cat /etc/trueuserdomains | awk ‘{print $2}’` do /bin/chown $i.$i /home/$i -R; /bin/chown $i.mail /home/$i/etc -R; /bin/chown $i.nobody /home/$i/public_html; echo "ownership has been corrected now." done
The ownership of the home directory of a user, etc and public_html will be corrected in a one go
Correcting ownership of all cPanel Users