Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 23:51:16 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Cc: branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov, dbrockus@m1.sprynet.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please Help ... I am locked out of a FreeBSD machine Message-ID: <199605082351.XAA05737@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9605081534.AA19100@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> (message from Sean Kelly on Wed, 8 May 1996 09:34:51 -0600)
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>>>>> Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> writes: > > >>>>> "Branson" == Branson Matheson <branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> writes: > Branson> chmod 644 -R .??* I prefer chmod 644 -R .[a-zA-Z]* myself > Branson> the '?'s will require two characters in the file > Branson> name.. not just one which very effectively skips '.' and > Branson> '..'. > > But it unfortunately misses all entries with a name of . followed by a > single character: .a, .b, .c, etc. But, hey, close enough! Do those > by hand, I say! You forgot the upper case ones 8-) And yes, I've made this mistake as well (in someone's home directory, so they ended up owning everyone's files). Not quite as serious, perhaps, but a *lot* more embarrassing!
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