Quoting Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet.com>: > Scott Silva wrote: > > I don't know of an easy way to fix this. Root is dangerous! > > > Guns aren't dangerous. People are dangerous. > > 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 Yep, seems that is how I shot myself in the foot. Thankfully it's still attached. But that command will go into the subfolders, though, correct? Another suggestion I got, that I should've done, was '/home/user2/chown user2:user2 ../user2/*'. But I think that one is missing something... I may have remembered it wrong. Should've wrote it down... -- --- David Woyciesjes