CentOS mailing list centos@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.
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