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- From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Owner of /home file system reset.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.234707.6607@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 23:47:07 GMT
- Article-I.D.: zia.1992Nov11.234707.6607
- References: <BxK6K6.51K@ecf.toronto.edu>
- Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
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- In article <BxK6K6.51K@ecf.toronto.edu> elder@ecf.toronto.edu (ELDER J David) writes:
- >
- >Hi there! I have an RS6000/320 running AIX 3.2.2 and I have an
- >annoying situation. The ownership of the /home filesystem was changed
- >to the name of the last user I created.
-
- Did you by any chance do something like the following:
-
- cd /home/newuser
- chown newuser *
- chown newuser .*
- ?
-
- If so, that last chown is your problem, because .* also matches .. . What you
- want to do is "chown newuser .[A-z]*" instead.
-
- How did I learn this? Guess ... :-)
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- Ruth Milner NRAO/VLA Socorro NM
- Computing Division Head rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
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