Hello all, I have a really basic question; I really messed up my box.
I was doing a reinstall on an old box after a drive failure. I restored /home but one of the UIDs were created differently so I needed to chown their directory, including all the hidden files in their ~/. Without thinking, as root I did a: r...@plot:/home/dtbrowser# chown -R dtbrowser.dtbrowser .* Unfortunatly, no everyting on the box is owned by dtbrowser. It walked up the file tree (presumably via . and ..) and changed everything. I know that I could have used find to look for all files owned by the old UID, plunked it through xargs and chowned them that way, but is there a way, as root, to chown directly the hidden files without chowning the whole box? Just for my future reference? Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
