[TriLUG] Re: Big Goof (chown -R misstep)

[Lance A. Brown]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 16:52, Dan Monjar wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, but did he OwN the SyStEm? :-)

--[Lance]

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