bash version 3.2.29 and chown version 6.10 Permisions in home folder on hidden directories with root and not vincent.
$ sudo chown -R vincent:vincent * changed all but the hidden folders, so did not work for this situation $ sudo chown -R vincent:vincent .* Command very bad. .* wild card picked up directory entry '..' and like requested chown descended into sub directories, BUT chown also ascended into parent directory, in this case home, and descended into all sub directories thus trashing all permisions in /home/otherguy /home/yetanotherguy and just for the hell of it, /home/lost+found Luckily I only messed up three user home directories. Should there be a filter for '..' that prohibts chown from assending towards / ? Vincent Chapman _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
