[CentOS] Re: chown command goof up

[Adam Thompson]

CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> writes:
>Anyway.  In case one wanted to do a little chown'ing above and beyond
>the scope of most necessity again, the proper way to deal with the -R 
>recursion
>nightmare is by executing it on .??* and ??*.
>That will, of course skip anything that has a 2-character name, but 
>that's usually
>okay, because it will keep you from recursively chown'ing "..".
>Just in case nobody comes out and says it..
>Peter
>-- 
>Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet dot com>

A much easier concept would be to:

	chown -R user2:user2 ~user2

which will implicitly recurse through that directory.  There's normally
no reason the user's home directory itself shouldn't be owned by the
user.


-Adam Thompson
 Divisional IT Department,  St. James-Assiniboia School Division
 150 Moray St., Winnipeg, MB, R3J 3A2
 athompson at sjsd.net / tel: (204) 837-5886 x222 / fax: (204) 885-3178


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