Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:34:47 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /root:"chmod 600 .*" nothing work now Message-ID: <19980615223447.A15211@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3585D0EB.389AA3D7@aei.ca>; from "Malartre" on Mon Jun 15 21:56:59 GMT 1998 References: <3585D0EB.389AA3D7@aei.ca>
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In the last episode (Jun 15), Malartre said: > Ok, I have play with chmod for the first time. > <screenshot> > #pwd: > /root > #chmod 600 .* > <!-- it was only to change the mode of all "." hiden file --!> Unfortunately, sh, csh, and bash all match "." and ".." with the pattern ".*". You just have to be careful about wildcards. Zsh is the only shell I know of offhand that explicitly never lets a wildcard match "." or "..". What your command did was make "/home/.." (that is, "/") mode 600. To fix your particular problem, "chmod 755 /". -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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