On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Armelius Cameron <armeli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, February 28, 2011 10:53:34 pm inode0 wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Larry Brower <la...@maxqe.com> wrote: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA512 >> > >> > On 02/28/2011 07:47 AM, Alain Spineux wrote: >> >>> So I did SUDO -i, and from root as shell I tried to >> >>> chown -hR * fcassia on the Desktop folder... >> >> >> >> You must switch the star and our user name >> >> >> >> chown -hR fcassia * >> > >> > You should also avoid doing chown -R with just a * wildcard as this >> > could possibly recursively follow ../ which would then try and change >> > ownership on things you don't want changed. >> >> Out of curiosity how can you configure bash to expand a simple * to include >> ..?
Not as explicit as it could be, but search <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.txt> for "cending" to see if you can find any evidence the commands will ascend above the current directory. Perhaps one example at that URL is useful: # Change the owner of /u and subfiles to "root". chown -hR root /u Note the use of the term subfiles. regards/va...@texoma.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
