-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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?
Instead of > r...@plot:/home/dtbrowser# chown -R dtbrowser.dtbrowser .* do r...@plot:/home/dtbrowser# chown -R dtbrowser.dtbrowser /home/dtbrowser/.* [in one line] Cheers, Johannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpM3xQACgkQC1NzPRl9qEW8wQCeMzJAwaoOYNmhw9Ue+2/MktrZ 8TwAn24qjU+bl7vypxSDDQpLk+4LVXDx =vIsj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org