[TriLUG] Big Goof (chown -R misstep)

[Dan Monjar]

--On Thursday, January 15, 2004 04:40:28 PM -0500 Jason Purdy 
<jason at journalistic.com> wrote:

> I was pretty close to deploying a new server yesterday when I made a
> tragic error.  I was uploading some web materials (/var/www) and hit an
> ownership error, so I did a quick:
>
> chown -R jason *
>

No Debian system here... but has anyone every done a 'chown -R .*' in hopes 
of changing the hidden files?  I once had an Oracle DBA, who just *had* to 
have root, do that from a directory one step down from /... he ended up 
owning the entire system.

-- 
Dan
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