What does it do? You said it reset somebody's boss's access so he could not
read some file. Was this hyperbole? When I just tried it on a local directory,
"chown -R ." gave an error, while "chown -R : ."
appeared to do nothing on linux, under cygwin, it did reset 'group' id's
from "null" (uid=-1) to my default group, but didn't affect other groups.
But I haven't found a linux case where it does something, yet... :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P> Is this just an academic worry, or were you really bitten by it?
Yes. About once a year I do chown -R . file, thinking that -R meant
recursive, oops, I mean "reference"... never expecting it to "work if
it doesn't work", as with most commands, if it doesn't complain, then
it must have worked, and one doesn't look back, until a month later
when one notices some files didn't get written and were now lost due
to a permission problem.
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