Duplicate accounts?

Larry Brower larry at maxqe.com
Mon Feb 28 22:34:53 UTC 2011


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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.
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