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From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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In-reply-to: <9605081534.AA19100@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> (message from Sean Kelly on Wed, 8 May 1996 09:34:51 -0600)
Subject: Re: Please Help ... I am locked out of a FreeBSD machine
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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!