On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 23:56:47 +0300 David Baron <[email protected]> wrote:
> Continuing to set up my new 64-bit install. > > Any attempt to chown -R thisuser:thisuser /home/thisuser/.* > > For example,to reset permissions of hidden items, will change ALL > users' home folders, everything. Actually, on the surface, this might > seem correct behavior because of the '.' This is, of course, a > catastrophe. Their kde, etc, is unusable. > > How can I do this? You could try .[a-z]* or similar, but there's almost always going to be exceptions there. Your safest option is probably to use find. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
