NO! chmod strikes!

[JoshNarins]

I tried, in a subdir of /root, the command
chmod -R o-rwx .*
It changed the permissions on the parent directory,
the parent's parent directory, all the way up.

Now only root can use my computer.

Was chmod supposed to understand .* so differently
than /bin/ls does?

I am running 2.2.19-pre17 on i586

-josh