Accidentally setting home

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 28 May 2011 16:02:13 +0300, DC wrote:

> I came across an interesting warning while googling an issue:
> apparently chowning another user's home directory will change your own
> home directory? That is what is warned here:
> http://www.ambience.sk/old/user-account-copy-linux
> Search that page for commenter hollerith's comments, which another
> commenter verifies.

Nonsense. Couldn't you have quoted the relevant command-line?
It uses

  /home/newuser/.*

which is _not_ "another user's home directory", because the .* also
includes .., the parent directory, which in this case is /home.