Duplicate accounts?

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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Larry Brower <larry at maxqe.com> wrote:
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> On 02/28/2011 07:47 AM, Alain Spineux wrote:
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>>> So I did SUDO -i, and from root as shell I tried to
>>> chown -hR * fcassia on the Desktop folder...
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>> You must switch the star and our user name
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>> chown -hR fcassia *
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> 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 ..?

Of course recursive changes are always dangerous since there may be
symlinks uncovered in the recursion pointing all over the place ...

John