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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
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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

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