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.

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Chris Jackson


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