Chris Jackson wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> 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? > > > The simplest way would be to recursively chown the home directory: > > chown chrisj.chrisj ~chrisj > > That won't follow the .. link.
Shouldn't that include the recursive flag? chown -R chrisj.chrisj ~chrisj Otherwise it just changes the owner of the directory and not all the files in it. And here are a couple of other flags from the chown(1) manpage which render chown a less dangerous command: --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP change the owner and/or group of each file only if its current owner and/or group match those specified here. Either may be omitted, in which case a match is not required for the omitted attribute. --preserve-root fail to operate recursively on / - Chris B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
