From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 15:50:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pleb.cs.uct.ac.za (pleb.cs.uct.ac.za [137.158.132.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADDD014BC9 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) X-Disclaimer: Contents of this e-mail are the writer's opinion X-Disclaimer2: and may not be quoted, re-produced or forwarded X-Disclaimer3: (in part or whole) without the author's permission. Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by pleb.cs.uct.ac.za (8.9.1+3.1W/8.9.1a) with SMTP id AAA10821; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:49:46 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:49:45 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@pleb.cs.uct.ac.za Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: Jonathan Chen Cc: loren , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Changing a user's UID In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Mobile: +27 82 9907663 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jonathan Chen wrote: >> If I "cd ~username" then >> "chown --recursive username:groupname *", the dot files Try chown -R username:groupname /home/username --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za FreeBSD enthusiast * http://www2.za.freebsd.org/ Security-wise, NT is a OS with a "kick me" sign taped to it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message