On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:18:14PM +0200, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > hello, > > never, never do : > chmod -R o+r .* > anywhere. (I do it in /home). > > After doing this as root, I lose a lot of right acces every were for > users. > user can't use bash, profile dir, libreadline lib ..... > > is there a way to solve this ? > using apt-get and force to download all my package and to install > them again ? (but how?) > > Thanks.
The reason it did this is because '..' is included in .* , I would suggest next time using just * or just . (just . will recurse from the cwd up, using * will not include the cwd).
