[3583] in RedHat Linux List
Re: chown as root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug 'Doogiemeister' Kremer)
Sat Nov 9 13:07:12 1996
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 13:05:04 -0500 (EST)
From: "Doug 'Doogiemeister' Kremer" <kremer@Kremerdg.gardens.udayton.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <328291E7.21C8D348@iceonline.com>
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Borg wrote:
> Borg wrote:
> >
> > Jason,
> >
> > You can do:
> >
> > cd /; chown -R root *;chgrp -R root *
>
> I just tried that on one of the machines which
> I don't depend upon, and hidden files were not
> affected. So, the above should have been:
>
> cd /; chown -R root * .*; chgrp -R root * .*
easier:
cd / ; chown -R root.root *
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