Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Hello all,
I have a really basic question; I really messed up my box.
I was doing a reinstall on an old box after a drive failure. I restored
/home but one of the UIDs were created differently so I needed to chown
their directory, including all the hidden files in their ~/.
Without thinking, as root I did a:
r...@plot:/home/dtbrowser# chown -R dtbrowser.dtbrowser .*
Unfortunatly, no everyting on the box is owned by dtbrowser. It walked
up the file tree (presumably via . and ..) and changed everything.
I know that I could have used find to look for all files owned by the
old UID, plunked it through xargs and chowned them that way, but is
there a way, as root, to chown directly the hidden files without
chowning the whole box?
Just for my future reference?
Thanks,
Doug.
That's the most awesome global file oopsie I've heard of in a long time!
I think I would probably have used ~ instead of * in some way. Or,
named more of the full path, and depended a little less on the wildcard.
Anything combining a * with a . is usually asking for trouble, I've found.
Gives me the willies just thinking about it.
Mark Allums
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