On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Larry Brower <larry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 02/28/2011 07:47 AM, Alain Spineux wrote: > >>> So I did SUDO -i, and from root as shell I tried to >>> chown -hR * fcassia on the Desktop folder... >> >> You must switch the star and our user name >> >> chown -hR fcassia * >> >>> > > You should also avoid doing chown -R with just a * wildcard as this > could possibly recursively follow ../ which would then try and change > ownership on things you don't want changed. Out of curiosity how can you configure bash to expand a simple * to include ..? Of course recursive changes are always dangerous since there may be symlinks uncovered in the recursion pointing all over the place ... John -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
