Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:15:24 +0200 From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Meagan Jia Pi <meagan@e-lingo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about chown Message-ID: <20000608211524.D6019@denary.brwn.org> In-Reply-To: <20000609001909.A5699@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 12:19:09AM %2B0530 References: <862568F8.0062581F.00@MCSMTP.MC.VANDERBILT.EDU> <058f01bfd178$5c380880$e293c83f@meagan> <20000609001909.A5699@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Hi, On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 12:19:09AM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Meagan Jia Pi said on Jun 8, 2000 at 11:35:45: > > Greetings! > > > > A friend of mine logged in as root and did this under some user's home > > directory: > > > > chown username .* > > > > trying to change ownership of all the hidden files, but a disaster happened: > > he unintentionally > > changed ownership for all the users' home directory to this paticular user. > > > > I understand the best way to do this is to go a directory above, and do > > "chown -R username", > > but I 'd like to find out why it happened that way. > > Because the shorthand for the directory immediately below the > current directory is .. which got included in .* > So if he was in /home/me, .. meant /home, and everything in /home got > chown'ed. > Just as well it was a chown and not rm -r :) > R. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Regards Willem Brown -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ A budget is spending $15.00 on gas to drive to a shopping mall to save $4.30 on a 20 pound turkey. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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