[3585] in RedHat Linux List
Re: chown as root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Hockin)
Sat Nov 9 13:16:50 1996
From: Tim Hockin <thockin@eagle.ais.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 12:14:06 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961109130402.12278A-100000@Kremerdg.gardens.udayton.edu> from "Doug 'Doogiemeister' Kremer" at Nov 9, 96 01:05:04 pm
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> > 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 * .*
NO!!!!
Unless I am wrong, that will also find .. and recursively chown that!
eg: in a minute EVERYTHING is root.root!
cd /target/dir ; chown -R root.root * .??*
This will catch 99% of files without affecting the rest of the filesystem
the only ones it will miss will be files like .a, .1, which do not match .??*
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