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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
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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.
> 
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Regards
Willem Brown

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