Duplicate accounts?

[Larry Vaden]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Armelius Cameron <armeliusc at 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 <larry at maxqe.com> wrote:
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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.
>>
>> 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/vaden at texoma.net