On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 09:49:15PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Again:
> 
>       chown -R 1000:1000 /home/kaj/
> 
> as root should fix them all. If it doesn't, chown would seem to be broken.

Looks correct.

> Maybe this in addition?
> 
>       chown -R 1000:1000 /home/kaj/.*

No, NOT correct.  Do not do this.  .* will expand to .. which will mean
you end up chowning all of /home.

The chown -R rooted in /home/kaj will include all of the dot files,
so you don't need a second step at all.  Especially not this one.

Reply via email to