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This: chown -R userb:users /home/userb/.* (mind the dot in .*) is the same as chown -R userb:users /home/ (see post #8). Avoid using .* (dot star) in the chown command, the end result is probably not what you expect.
To include all of the dot files in a directory, I will use ".[^.]*" in order to exclude the parent directory "..".
If you want to change permissions on all files in a directory, use the "find" command to locate just files. You don't want to clear the "x" bit on directories. But for most directories, you don't want the "x" bit set.
The dot you are talking about (. between user and group) doesn't always work among the different flavours of chown out there. A : as separator does.
But besides that, that is not the issue here, the way chown interprets /home/user/ vs /home/user/* vs /home/user/.* is
Hope this helps.
Only thought i would mention that because of the difference between the flavours of chown. I had the same problem 8-9 years ago with chown doing the same thing. After fixing all the permission problems, seeing an example on the net somewhere used the dot, i then used that, never had a problem since.May have been coincidental, just thought It was worth a mention
Only thought i would mention that because of the difference between the flavours of chown. I had the same problem 8-9 years ago with chown doing the same thing. After fixing all the permission problems, seeing an example on the net somewhere used the dot, i then used that, never had a problem since.May have been coincidental, just thought It was worth a mention
Use what works for you. I would have a look at the chown man page to make sure.
The chown version I use at home tells me to use the : (no mention of .), but both : and . work (which is not the case at work, only : works).
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