Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:35:45 -0700 From: "Meagan Jia Pi" <meagan@e-lingo.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: question about chown Message-ID: <058f01bfd178$5c380880$e293c83f@meagan> References: <862568F8.0062581F.00@MCSMTP.MC.VANDERBILT.EDU>
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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.
Thanks in advance.
-Meagan
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