From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 11:41:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from castor.e-lingo.com (castor.e-lingo.com [63.200.147.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C1E37BC69 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:41:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from meagan@e-lingo.com) Received: from meagan (node226.e-lingo.com [63.200.147.226] (may be forged)) by castor.e-lingo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA53564 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from meagan@e-lingo.com) Message-ID: <058f01bfd178$5c380880$e293c83f@meagan> From: "Meagan Jia Pi" To: References: <862568F8.0062581F.00@MCSMTP.MC.VANDERBILT.EDU> Subject: question about chown Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:35:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 Disposition-Notification-To: "Meagan Jia Pi" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Thanks in advance. -Meagan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message